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NEW visiting arrangements have been announced for Bradford Teaching Hospitals.

Worried by the increase in cases of preterm babies, paediatricians have noted that while the average pregnancy lasts for approximately 37 to 42 weeks, every baby born before

Date Time Immediate skin-to-skin contact after birth improves survival of pre-term babies Continuous skin-to-skin contact starting immediately after delivery even before the baby has been stabilised can reduce mortality by 25 per cent in infants with a very low birth weight. This according to a study in low- and middle-income countries coordinated by the WHO on the initiative of researchers at Karolinska Institutet published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Continuous skin-to-skin contact between infant and mother, or “Kangaroo Mother Care” (KMC), is one of the most effective ways ...

Immediate kangaroo mother care for preterm and low birthweight babies requires dedicated Mother-Newborn Intensive Care Units GENEVA, 27 May...

A MUM has told of her devastation after her tiny baby was born alive after an abortion at 18 weeks - and lived for ten hours. Loran Denison, 27, was pregnant with her fourth child, when a test at 15 weeks revealed he had Edwards' syndrome. It's a rare but very serious condition and most babies with Edwards' syndrome will die before or shortly after being born, or at a young age. Loran and partner Scott Watson, 35, made the agonising decision to have a medical abortion after being told he was unlikely to be born alive, she said. She took a tablet and returned to hospital to be induced ...