Other content tagged: very preterm
Preterm birth and parent-child relationships: the long-term impact for children and adolescents
The family environment influences the child's social-emotional development. Especially in preterm-born children, these influences seem to be greater than in peers born at term. O'Brien and others studied the relationship between preterm children and their parent-child relationship. The findings show that there is a stronger link between maternal conflict and increased socioemotional difficulties in very preterm children than in children born at term. Preterm birth (<37 weeks of gestation) may lead to many negative…
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Reasons for ROP occurrence and a new option of treatment: an interview with Professor Ann Hellström
Dear Professor Hellström, Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is an eye disease that only occurs in very preterm babies (usually preterm babies born before the 31st week or born with a birth weight below 1250 g). What exactly happens in the back of the eye, when a child develops an ROP and why does this occur? When a child develops ROP the development of the neurons and the vessels (neuro-vascular) in the retina (the part at the back of the eye…
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Very preterm babies: Large differences in the use of specialist health services in different European countries
Very preterm babies (born earlier than 32 weeks gestational age) suffer more frequently from various impairments, such as motor, hearing, vision, developmental and cognitive impairments, compared to term babies, and the earlier the baby is born, the higher the risk of facing difficulties. As a matter of fact, of all babies born extremely preterm (22-27 weeks), between 21% and 35% suffer from moderate to severe neurological disability in childhood, and 40% of babies born extremely preterm have a severe health…
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