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While premature birth is a threat that exists and you worry about during the course of pregnancy, it is important to point out two things. The first is that you can do many things to prevent it in case you are carrying what we call in a previous post risk factors.

One of the most widespread is diabetes and other not so well known is his relationship with gum disease. In all cases where these factors exist that predispose, the most effective prevention is a nearby medical control is well aware of its existence.

But there’s more you can do with or without the presence of risk factors as well could be a history of spontaneous abortion or cervical problems. This is something very simple but very important: the rest and the absence of stress, which contribute much to prevent premature birth.

The second point, going to tell you that if preterm labor occurs, you should not blame or be pessimistic. As much as we care, sometimes nature does its job and such things are beyond our control, it is good to know that babies tend to be stronger than they appear and their struggle for living is exemplary.

You know that premature birth does not necessarily synonymous with permanent problems or baby. Science today is far and care and measures to be implemented in these cases, impressive gains achieved even in cases that could be called miracles.

“I started with fluid loss, but as it regenerates rest gave me and put me injections to mature before my baby’s lungs. In addition, every day had to take blood tests for me to analyze the amniotic fluid and then found that my little Magda not gained weight, but what was missing. “

Barbara Cortez’s testimony, recalling the moments before the birth of the last of his four children, is far more common than you might think. In fact, today the rate of preterm delivery in the country accounts for 6 percent and 8 percent of pregnancies and is the cause of 70% of perinatal morbidity and mortality (immediately before or after the time of delivery), figures have been stable in recent years, despite multiple attempts to improve research and treatment.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), all preterm labor is that which occurs before 37 weeks gestation, but not all have the same severity and within that the doctors’ efforts are concentrated on those deliveries that occur before 32 weeks, so that work on prevention, diagnosis and management, because it increases the likelihood of morbidity and complications for the child.

For Barbara, it was time Pesquisar premature delivery, which allowed as long as possible to lengthen the birth that allows for better child development. But there are times when this situation is much more unexpected. And that was precisely the experience he Machalí Councilwoman, Rosa Garcia Allende, who came to our city for a couple of days to a National Congress and elected officials ended up giving birth at the Hospital Base Osorno, two and a half months than predicted.

Hence, his young daughter, who weighed 1.145 kilos and measured 35 centimeters, must remain in an incubator between one month and a half to two, waiting to get the optimum weight-kilos -2 to leave this system. Consequently, his mother must stay in the city.

It is considered preterm, full birth that occurs before 37 weeks gestation. Premature babies are at greater risk of developing health problems than babies who meet the 40 weeks of gestation. Still, today’s medicine allows a baby born with only 30 weeks, can live a little while in the incubator with all the necessary care to develop properly. You can even lengthen the pregnancy when you know that there are risks of preterm delivery. A combination of medication and rest will help. Medications called glucocorticoids, administered 24 hours before delivery, can help accelerate the maturity of the lungs and brain of the child and, thus, reduce some problems.

It causes by stress, health history of the mother, infection and bad habits like smoking, drinking or using other drugs have to do much in some cases. However, there is a very high percentage of early births of which the causes are unknown.

Symptoms:
* Contractions that make your belly harden even every 10 minutes or more
* Change in color of vaginal discharge or bleeding
* The feeling that your baby is pushing down very soon
* Pain in the lower weak back
* Stomach pain with or without diarrhea