what are the chances of a baby born at 28 weeks living a normal healthy life?
jns_martin asked:
I have been on bed rest since 16 weeks due to an IC and am now 27 weeks.
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I have been on bed rest since 16 weeks due to an IC and am now 27 weeks.
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March 16th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
These days the chances are quite good. Once you get past the 20/21 week mark, every week after that gives your baby a better chance of being healthy.
Best of luck for a happy, healthy baby.
March 19th, 2009 at 5:38 am
they have a 95% chance of survival !! but the longer you have then in your belly the more of a chance the have of surviving and its just better for there lungs and everything hey will have to stay in the NICU until close to their due date give ir take a few days depending on there development i hope the best for you and your baby GOOD LUCK and congratulations
March 21st, 2009 at 6:21 am
I just got a nanny job with a mom who delivered triplet boys at 28 weeks. They were in the NICU for three months. One had a little jaundice, and one had to have heart surgery. The mom went on bedrest at 20 weeks.
All three of them are home now and very happy, healthy boys
March 23rd, 2009 at 4:53 pm
of course, each passing week makes the chances better. 24 weeks is the age of viability, meaning baby can live outside of mom, but usually not without lots of medical support (incubator, ventilator, IV nutrition, etc) 28 weeks is better than 24 but any premature baby has its risks. if you would like to know some of the diagnoses that are more common in preemies, google these:
Respiratory distress syndrome (RDS)
Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC)
Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP)
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Intraventricular Hemorrhage (IVH)
NICU RN
In response to Danyelle: babies born at 20 weeks DO NOT survive. Check your facts. I am a registered nurse who works with these babies daily. They can be born smaller than their gestational age, meaning that they are growth restricted but babies before 24 weeks DO NOT have alveloi which is essential to being able to breathe on their own with or without the help of a ventilator.
March 25th, 2009 at 7:00 am
It is really hard to say. One case could result in a perfectly healthy baby, and another could result in a baby with special needs, or even a fatality. My aunt had twins at 26 weeks (14 years ago). One boy perished due to being in distress too long prior to birth, the other survived and is now a happy 14 year old with Cerebral Palsy.
March 27th, 2009 at 2:09 am
i had my first baby at 25 wks. he is now 21 years old. ic is that incompetent cervix? can your ob put in a cerclage (stitch)? my son stayed in the nicu for 4 months. it was a very scary ride. now he is very smart and is in his 3rd year of college. good luck and i wish you the best.
March 29th, 2009 at 4:25 am
Great!!
My daughter was born at 28 weeks, has had nothing wrong with her that doesn’t have to do with prematurity. Such as, not being able to breath on her own when she was born, things like that. She spent 91 days in the NICU, but is home now! A little behind, but right where she should be for her corrected age!
What they can do these days is amazing!
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JACKMATT - - Babies were born at 20 weeks in the hospital where I had my daughter. So 24 weeks is not the youngest a baby can survive without their mother!
March 31st, 2009 at 11:58 am
At weeks the baby would more than likely survive, but they would have some problems. They’ll have to stay in the NICU until close to their due date. It will be a long rough road. I had my daughter at 25 weeks and it was definitely a hard time for us. The baby will probably be on a ventilator or c-pap (it’s a step in between a ventilator and just regular nasal prongs with oxygen. It may require blood transfusions because more preemies are anemic. They’ll also have a central line in one of there major veins giving all the nutrition that formula, or pumped ****** milk can’t give. They would start out bottle feeding when the baby would be around 32 weeks, but it definitely will not take all feeds from the bottle because a preemies brain is too premature to comprehend sucking, swallowing and breathing all at the same time so they’ll have a tube in their nose to fed most of the time. There a lot of other things that are just too much too type, but the NICU nurses will explain them all.
Once you finally get your baby home you have to remember to go by their corrected age (the age they would be, if born on their due date) for milestones until about age 2 or 3 when they should be caught up. My daughter is 13.5 months, 10 months corrected age and is doing quite well. The only real problem she has is that she has a speech delay so she sees a speech therapist and she has some eye problems that she may need glasses for because of the oxygen she was on.
It will definetly be a long hard road, but in the end more than likely it will turn out fine. Good luck to you and your little one.
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:24 pm
My son was born at 29 weeks. He was NICU for 6 weeks. The only problems he had was breathing, but it wasn’t bad they just put him on the oxygen canal. At 27 weeks that’s when babies lungs start developing, so those extra 2 weeks really helped him. your baby has a very strong chance of living without any problems, if ur baby does have any problems it will most likely be a little hearing loss, or maybe some eyesight problems. I hope this helped!! good luck!