Infant Weight

Babies born by Caesarean section weighing only 3 pounds 14 oz I know it's really little. What are the chances that the baby will survive? In addition, the baby will have lots of health problems because of this?

My daughter weighed 4 pounds. She was 32 weeks gestation and spent 30 days in NICU. Every baby is different, but only mine has never needed oxygen. She was in an incubator, because she has no body fat to heat. If a premature baby is cold it will use up calories he needs desperately. She had some sleep apnea, but it has been treated with caffeine and spent eight days. She had a feeding tube premature because many do not have enough muscle strength to suck. My daughter is 2 1 / 2 now. She is in physical therapy. It should grow out of his low muscle tone well. It can go swimming in a pool therapy once a week. It's just fun for her. My suggestion is always to parents of premature babies to put these issues on the March of Dimes Share homepage. There are thousands of parents prematurely there. Many nurses and doctors, even intensive care unit. It is a great community and they know what you have lived.

my cousin was born about two pounds, she was born at 24 weeks, it does not work any problams depending only doctors can tell if there will be a medical problams

A baby born weighing 3 pounds 14 ounces has a great chance of surviving. My best friends son was born at 27 weeks and weighs two pounds four ounces, he is now happy healthy 4 years. My cousin was born at 25 weeks and weighed only 2 pounds, she is now 7. The low birth weight can lead to medical problems, but it depends mostly on how the baby was premature.

The baby has a good chance of survival and health problems mainly moderate respitory infections and ear, but he will gain weight and be healthy, as long as the mother took care of herself during pregnancy. the baby will remain in the NICU for a couple of weeks or months, but when he weighs 5 kg or more may go home and could be placed on a monitor for when he sleeps so she still has breathing problems, but develop normally simply be Alitti least for a while ...

Only a doctor can answer this question after having assessed the baby. Each premature baby is different. Many smaller babies than survive without problems, some problems have more than. All I can say is that today, 3 pounds 14 ounces is not little. They managed to save the babies weighing less than a pound.

the young have survived!

In the medical world of today a baby of that weight is certainly a chance. If the baby has a lot of problems or do not depend on the individual child. My little son was born 18 years. ago. He weighed 2 pounds., 2 oz and was 15 inches long. It is also born by emergency Caesarean section at 28 weeks. This last June 1, he obtained his high school salutatorian. Except for a hernia (repaired when he was 3 months. Old), his only problem was still low birthweight babies weighing more than twice that many, never made it home from the Hosp. Go figure. Anyway, I wish you good luck with your little precious and that you and baby will be in my prayers.

It depends on sex and ethnicity. black girls are the most successful survive prematurity. Then the black boys, white girls, white boys. I had a baby girl born at 28wks 2 pounds 15 oz ... she is fine now and 6. I had a baby boy born at 26wks £ 2 8oz, he lived only two weeks. The statistics I gave are those of nurses in the neonatal intensive care to talk. I would say that the weight is not the question of his lung maturity and level of development.

Based on weight alone, the chances are actually very good. It depends on the actual pregnancy and whatever medical conditions exist. This includes the cause of prematurity. Regarding the future of medical problems, I now know premature adults who are perfectly well a.