S. M. was born April 1, 1941, one month before the expected date of confinement. Her Negro father and White-and-Indian mother, both 35 years of age, were well except for a reputed, asymptomatic cardiac enlargement in the mother. A 10-year and a 12-year-old sibling were well. There had been no other pregnancies. There was no family disease. The mother's serology was negative. Social Service inve...

Premature infants are at increased risk for poor health, feeding difficulties, and impaired mother-infant interaction, leading to developmental delay. Social-environmental risks, such as poverty or minority status, compound these biological risks, placing premature infants in double jeopardy. Guided by an ecological model, the Hospital-Home Transition: Optimizing Prematures' Environment interve...

This study's purpose was to examine whether child characteristics, child illness severity, maternal characteristics, maternal psychological well-being, and paternal support influenced interactions between 108 premature infants and their mothers. Mothers with singletons or more infant illness stress showed more positive involvement. Mothers with less infant illness stress, less education, or les...

At birth the newborn infant is required to make an abrupt adjustment to a new environment. Hitherto its existence has been parasitic and its needs have been supplied by the maternal organism. The most immediate dramatic changes required to support extra uterine life are concerned with respiration and the circulation. The infant must achieve a regular respiratory rhythm and be able to expand its...

Though ectopia of the kidney is a common anomaly (Campbell, 1951) displacement is usually downwards towards the pelvis, or medially. Upward displacement into the thoracic cavity is a much rarer finding. Ashley and Mostofi (1960), in a review of some quarter of a million necropsies, did not find a single case of thoracic kidney. The present report is of interest because of the diagnosis of this ...

The premature infant is born with the skin and the skeleton and the organs of a seven-month fetus. He is called upon to play the part of a newborn infant with the personalia of a fetus. He is admirably fitted to continue living in the uterus, but is ill provided to meet the exigencies of an extrauterine existence. He is suddenly forced into surroundings of a kind which impose upon him urgent ca...

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