Healthy Babies Are Happy Babies

Healthy babies are worth the wait.

BACKGROUND In 2005-2006 when this initiative was being planned, preterm birth had risen steadily by more than 30% over the previous two decades in the United States, peaking at 12.8% in 2006. Since then, the preterm birth rate has decreased more than 8% to 11.7% in 2011. Despite the decrease, nearly half a million babies are born preterm each year, and 70% of these are late preterm.

First Opinion: Babies, Babies, and More Babies

Are babies getting bigger ?

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 16 March 2009 190 6 312315 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2009 www.mja.com.au Public health the media, with comments such as “. . . the weight of new mothers and babies rockets to record levels . . .”, “Fatter babies mean more c-sections” and “Babies are being born bigger than ever . .”. Increases in birthweight have been reported overseas. In...

Asymptomatic bacteriuria in healthy preterm babies.

Urine was cultured from 51 healthy preterm babies. If the initial bag specimen grew more than 50 000 organisms/ml, a second bag specimen was cultured. After two positive bag specimens a suprapubic urine was cultured. Significant bacteriuria was excluded on the basis of one or two bag specimens in 90% of the babies. Suprapubic urine was sterile in a further 11 babies. Four babies with positive b...

Postmicturition residual bladder volumes in healthy babies.

Thirty eight assessments of postmicturition residual volume were undertaken in 34 babies of various gestational and postnatal ages using abdominal ultrasonography. Twenty one (54%) babies had no detectable residual bladder volume. In all cases manual expression of the bladder failed to eliminate the residual volume. The formula widely used in the estimation of fetal bladder size and urine outpu...