Main outcome measures: Participants' experiences and satisfaction with care during the birth of their preterm baby.

Umbilical cord milking (UCM) is proposed for increasing placental transfusion when immediate care for the preterm baby is needed.

Globally, an estimated 13 million preterm babies are born each year.

Preterm babies are at higher risk of respiratory and cardiovascular illness, as well as developmental delays.

Background: It is difficult to predict which preterm babies are most at risk for poor neurodevelopmental outcomes.

So the fear is that the rising number of preterm babies increases the number at risk for these complications.

Conclusions: Cigarette smoking during pregnancy is associated with a decrease in the risk of RDS in very preterm babies.

Normative data were obtained from 40 spontaneously breathing preterm babies and 21 term babies.

Objectives: To assess parents' first experiences of their very preterm babies and the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

There is a lack of research on mortality rate and causes of death after infancy in preterm babies in Korea.

The infusion of vasoactive drugs in preterm babies using syringe pumps can be complicated by important variations in the infusion rate.

Recent advances in maternal and foetal medicine have undoubtedly saved lives and improved the well-being of preterm babies and their families.

This investigation was initiated as a consequence of several cases of diarrhea in a nursery ward for preterm babies in Nairobi, Kenya.

Results: A total of 1783 preterm babies were examined, overall incidence of ROP was 55%.

They also had too few extremely preterm babies to draw firm conclusions about the heart risks associated with delivery earlier than 34 weeks gestation.

He said steroids were still the most important treatment for premature babies, and have had a big impact on reducing complications in preterm babies.