Exercising premature babies

When a child is born ahead of time, this does not mean that it is a small copy of a normal newborn. Such children differ in small weight, disproportionate physique, hyperdermated (red) skin integuments, underdevelopment of external genital organs and have other features. In order for a preterm child to develop normally, he needs special care.

Stages of nursing preterm

  1. Children's intensive care . Premature babies with immature vital systems of the body enter the resuscitation. If the child can not breathe on his own, then it is placed in a kuvez, which is equipped with an apparatus for artificial ventilation. Children with a lack of a sucking reflex receive mother's milk through a nasogastric tube. Most of the children in the kuveze are connected to numerous devices: droppers, heart rate sensors, temperature and respiration.
  2. Intensive therapy of newborns . The child, who begins to breathe on his own, is transferred to an intensive care unit where there is no artificial ventilation device. A child can not do without a kuvez, because his body is not yet able to maintain body temperature independently. Also in kuveze there is an additional supply of oxygen. At this stage, a method of therapy, called the kangaroo method, is common. This means that the child must contact the mother and hear her voice. A child on the mother's belly or breast maintains the body's temperature perfectly, his breathing also stabilizes, and the body receives a useful microflora that speeds up recovery.
  3. Follow-up care . The kid, who has normal functioning of all functions, nevertheless needs a long observation of specialists who will be able to detect deviations in time and correct them.

Features of care for premature babies

After discharge from the hospital, the baby needs special home care, which includes:

Observance of all principles of nursing preterm care contributes to the normal adaptation of children to environmental conditions.