A baby is premature When born before the 37th week of gestation, because of its vulnerability to temperature changes and a poor immune system, it may have more risk of death.
Thanks to technical advances, it has been achieved that possible complications and deaths are getting smaller. Statistics speak to us, the survival of babies who have a minimum weight of one kilogram, now reaches 98%, of a mortality in 1990 of 30%, has passed to only one 2%, although we would like that minimum percentage to be reduced to zero.
The point is that it is a success of the medicine, the advances that it undergoes, improve the results every day, for example, the use of surfactants helps to accelerate the maturity of the baby's organs, especially his lungs once he is born. Medical prevention is also very important in this reduction of deaths, when anticipated childbirth is anticipated, the future mother is given corticosteroids that also help promote the lung development of the future baby.
The most important thing is to strengthen the baby's organism and therefore, in addition to corticosteroids and surfactants, they take great care of the feeding, since for a premature baby, even breast milk can be deficient and therefore complement this with fortifiers.
Thanks to medical advances and their techniques, fewer deaths of premature babies are regretted, we must give thanks to medical science and hope that one day there is no problem for the birth of a baby.
