New Research From Packard Children's Hospital Experts Presented at 2008 Pediatric Academic Societies' Annu... (les under the same conditions. This new ...)

New Research From Packard Children's Hospital Experts Presented at 2008 Pediatric Academic Societies' Annual Meeting

Date:4/30/2008

les under the same conditions. This new experimental model will allow researchers to investigate the basis of gender-specific differences in preterm humans.
Monday, May 5, 3:00 pm

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Breastfeeding for premature infants is particularly difficult

All natural isn't at all easy for many moms trying to breast feed their preterm infants. It's not unusual for early babies to struggle to latch correctly or to be too weak to nurse effectively. Pumping breast milk traps tired, worried new mothers in a difficult cycle from machine to baby and back again. Neonatologist Jeffrey Gould, MD, studied more than 6,500 very low birth weight infants in California and found that only about 60% of these children were receiving any breast milk at their time of discharge. Younger and smaller infants, as well as those who spent longer in the hospital, tended to receive less breast milk. Babies who were African American or Hispanic, those who had a mother under the age of 20, and those who received no prenatal care or experienced medical complications after birth were also given less breast milk. Identifying high-risk groups such as these should allow more successful interventions aimed at supporting breast milk feeding.
Monday, May 5, 3:00 pm HST

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Catching up, or falling behind?

Parents of premature infants are often assured that their child will catch-up to their peers developmentally within a couple of years. However, developmental pediatrician Heidi Feldman, MD, has found that more than half of her sample of 98 premature children continued to lag in cognition and language at age 2, and 42% continued to score below expectations at pre-school age. She and her colleagues suggest that more aggressive early intervention from birth to age 3 may help these children catch-up to their full-term classmates.
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