OBJECTIVE Exploring maternal experience with premature newborn children in a domestic environment. METHODS The study was qualitative and used focus group interviews with 24 women who had had preterm deliveries in a public maternity hospital located in Northeast Brazil during June and October 2005. The mothers returned to the hospital facility at least 30 days after the newborn were discharged...

The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, the International Confederation of Midwives, the International Pediatric Association, and the Council of International Neonatal Nurses recognise and support the Every Newborn Action Plan, which is situated in the continuum of care for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health. The Every Newborn Action Plan calls for acceleration...

Preterm neonates are highly sensitive to systemic infections in early life but little is known about systemic immune development following preterm birth. We hypothesized that preterm neonates have immature systemic immunity with distinct developmental trajectory for the first several weeks of life, relative to those born at near-term or term. Using pigs as a model, we characterized blood leukoc...

Sema Arayıcı1, Fatma Nur Sarı1, Neşe Yaralı2, Mehmet Yekta Öncel1, Gülsüm Kadıoğlu Şimşek1, Nurdan Uras1, Uğur Dilmen3 1Zekai Tahir Burak Maternity Teaching Hospital, Division of Neonatology, Ankara, Turkey 2Ankara Children’s Hematology Oncology Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of Pediatric Hematology, Ankara, Turkey 3Yıldırım Beyazıt University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatri...