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Question about Preclampsia
by Angel4JohnnyB, Jan 10, 2004 12:00AM
Hi all,
My next door neighbor went for a regular monthly appointment and was then sent over to the hospital because of a kidney infection and then sent on to a bigger city hospital because of preclampsia where they took the baby 13 weeks early. She was right around 27 weeks and the baby weighs only 1 lb. 15 oz.
The doctors have told her that the baby has a 99% chance of survial which is great but my question being...........
What are the chances that the baby will lead a "normal" life?
What are the chances that the baby will have medical problems for the rest of his life?
What are the chances that the baby will have developmental problems?
All of these are answers the doctors are not giving her. I'm assuming she is too scared and too nieve to ask them so I was just wondering.
I'm not sure she even wants to know what is going to happen as I believe she would have had problems raising a "healthy" child born full-term.
Her sister-in-law has written her out a "complete schedule" of what she needs to do for the baby....when to feed him, when to change him, when he will sleep......ect....
"HELLO".........how often do babies really follow a schedule like that? What happens when the baby gets off that schedule?.......we all know he will!!!!!!!
How do I help her to understand how to take care of her child without seeming to be overbearing or telling her what to do with her own child?
I'm currently 20 1/2 weeks but have a 9 year old so I know how hard it can be even for someone who is 'completely' ready for parenthood.
Any advice or information would be wonderful
My next door neighbor went for a regular monthly appointment and was then sent over to the hospital because of a kidney infection and then sent on to a bigger city hospital because of preclampsia where they took the baby 13 weeks early. She was right around 27 weeks and the baby weighs only 1 lb. 15 oz.
The doctors have told her that the baby has a 99% chance of survial which is great but my question being...........
What are the chances that the baby will lead a "normal" life?
What are the chances that the baby will have medical problems for the rest of his life?
What are the chances that the baby will have developmental problems?
All of these are answers the doctors are not giving her. I'm assuming she is too scared and too nieve to ask them so I was just wondering.
I'm not sure she even wants to know what is going to happen as I believe she would have had problems raising a "healthy" child born full-term.
Her sister-in-law has written her out a "complete schedule" of what she needs to do for the baby....when to feed him, when to change him, when he will sleep......ect....
"HELLO".........how often do babies really follow a schedule like that? What happens when the baby gets off that schedule?.......we all know he will!!!!!!!
How do I help her to understand how to take care of her child without seeming to be overbearing or telling her what to do with her own child?
I'm currently 20 1/2 weeks but have a 9 year old so I know how hard it can be even for someone who is 'completely' ready for parenthood.
Any advice or information would be wonderful
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Sometimes later in life there can be learning problems due to the brain development, but your friend can work on that too. Tell her to read to the baby daily, even now before she thinks the baby "listens" or "understands". Research shows that this helps brain development and can make or break a child's academic success. Also, tell her to play classical music around the baby. That is also supposed to help brain development.