Premature babies need extra special care to develop properly. The parents of a premature baby should closely monitor the development of premature babies. Usually, when a premature baby is born it must remain in neonatal intensive care unit, until about 34 weeks (gestational age) and the other provisions are met. The child is monitored closely and may need to be placed in an incubator, fed by nasal tube and intravenous fluids.
Routines of eating and sleeping
When your premature baby comes home, it will most likely want to eat at night and sleep during the day. To help change this model to show signs of hunger, such as rooting, sucking, or putting hands to face. Your baby will tend to eat small amounts very often at first but will begin to eat and go longer periods without eating. Your child will also start sleeping more and more time during the night, when the amount increases milk or formula.
Vision and hearing
Retinopathy of prematurity is a condition where the small blood vessel in the eye increases abnormally. Premature babies also tend to have hearing problems more often than normal term infants. If you stand behind your baby and make a loud noise and the baby does not jump or startle, it may have a hearing problem. To submit any matter hearing or vision to the attention of your doctor.
Physical development
A premature baby goes through the same stages of development as a term baby, but will most likely go through the steps. When we think about development of a premature baby, it helps parents to use the baby "age-adjusted" instead of the actual age. To have a real idea of where the premature baby should be, to calculate how old she would if she was born on his due date. If she was born at six months gestation, she was three months earlier. When she is six months, it's as if she is three months. She was born early, but that does not mean that it will develop at the beginning.
Most premature babies reach an average weight and height at the time of their first birthday. Some premature babies, however, remains below the average for all time. Physical development may be delayed when premature babies have trouble with meals in the first months of life.
Premature babies who have serious complications can have serious developmental delays in cognitive development, language and motor skills. Early intervention programs for premature babies offered by each state human services department may be beneficial for them to reach the stages of normal development of the age of 2 years. minor disabilities, such as learning difficulties, does not usually appear before the age of primary school. A premature baby born near full term usually no long term problems.