Between the 6th and 7th month

Babies born between the 6th and 7th month, weighing less than 2 kilos, are still very premature.

They are put into intensive care if they cannot breathe on their own, and fed through a tube.

• Reasons for premature birth
• Medical
• Accidental
• Socio-economic
• Different stages of premature birth
• Before the 6th month
• Between the 6th and 7th month
• Between the 7th and 8th month
• Problems with premature babies
• Immature respiratory system
• Immature digestive system
• Immature thermoregulatory system
• Immature imune system
• Hospital care
• Incubator
• Ventilator
• Feeding tube
• Ultrasound scanning
• How long for?
• The parents' role
• Skin-on-skin contact
• As your premature baby grows up...
• The first year
• Later on