Cumulative Perinatal Steroids: Child Development of Preterm Infants

Cumulative risk and child development.

Childhood multiple risk factor exposure exceeds the adverse developmental impacts of singular exposures. Multiple risk factor exposure may also explain why sociodemographic variables (e.g., poverty) can have adverse consequences. Most research on multiple risk factor exposure has relied upon cumulative risk (CR) as the measure of multiple risk. CR is constructed by dichotomizing each risk facto...

Effects of Perinatal Indomethacin Treatment on Preterm Infants

Perinatal brain injury in preterm infants and later neurobehavioral function.

Maternal voice and preterm infants development

Mother’s voice seems to have an important role in neurological development of the fetus and the newborn. Numerous studies have shown that the fetus perceives sounds and reacts to them since 26th–28th week of gestation and that he has the ability to discriminate between the maternal voice and other voices, showing a marked preference to the first [1,2]. The fetus within the uterus is in a sound ...

Promoting preterm infants’ development and mother child interaction Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program

5 Table of contents. 6 List of publications 7 List of abbreviations 8 BACKGROUND 9 Introduction 9 Survival and infant development 9 Sensory environment 10 Brain development 10 Hearing, sound and noise 12