Research
suggests that babies born just a few weeks early have a slightly higher
risk of health problems in infancy. Previous work has focused on babies
born very prematurely, before 32 weeks. According to doctors their work
challenged extensively held views that offspring born after 37 weeks had similar long-term outcomes to those born at full term.
The
study was carried out by the universities of Leicester, Liverpool,
Oxford and Warwick and the National Perinatal Epidemiology division. The
authors of the study were at pains to stress those parents should not
be anxious about what was a modest chance of extra illness. According
to Andy Cole, chief executive of the special care baby charity Bliss,
This study highlights the need for the very best care to be given to all
babies born preterm no matter at what gestation, and not just those
admitted to intensive care.
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