Nursing care of premature infants after discharge

After discharge, how to properly care for preterm babies at home?

1. due to insufficient child sucking your strength, patience should be fed normally discharged early, a feed is 30-40 minutes.

2. baby you just discharged home, in the first two or three days, the volume of each meal fed to maintain the hospital does not have to increase the amount of the original, to adapt to the home environment and then gradually increase volume, because changes in the environment impact on children is quite large, especially gastrointestinal function.

3. meals-less and intermittent (each taking one minute bottle out the mouth, let baby Shun Shun breathing for about ten seconds, and then continue to feed) way of feeding may reduce the occurrence of spit up and breathing on the oppression.

4. can be fed powdered milk in preterm infants, to promote digestion and increases nutrient uptake. 5. preterm infants and change is also very sensitive to temperature, so pay attention to maintain body temperature and qualitative temperature scale so as not to cause disease.

6. back to the hospital for follow-up examination and treatment on a regular basis: such as audio and video, jaundice, cardiopulmonary, gastrointestinal digestion, and to accept vaccination.

7. to maintain close contact with the newborn doctor for consultation at any time. 8. skilled child care First aid, such as milk, seizures, colour of cyanosis, for a rainy day.

Other considerations must

1. while playing in preterm infants, slower movement, light, do not often use new toys, new faces around him. Not too much stimulation in preterm infants.

2. pay attention to the response in preterm infants, such as his head turned, or are no longer watching you, says he has \"enough\", in which case, you should stop playing with him.

3. indoor temperature, adjust the temperature of the body mechanisms is not yet perfect because preterm infants, does not have a layer of subcutaneous fat for his warm, lost heat quickly, so insulation is very important.

4. the night is dark and quiet, may not be used in preterm infants, bright night light and play nursery music, to help adapt in preterm infants.

5. like to be a baby wrapped up in premature infants, must note when material soft and bland, the head must not be wrapped.

6. premature due to the development of respiratory system is not perfect, is sensitive to air pollutants, so baby room must clean air, non-smoking.

7. baby bedding and baby room furniture color should not be too fresh, bright, so as to avoid excessive stimulation in preterm infants.

8. If preterm infants to suck, let him sucking nipple, which can assist him in developing oral activity skills, but also gave him a certain amount of sense.

9. the most important point is: you want to watch your child\'s special needs. General laws are not necessarily fully suited to his needs. You have to \"listen to his command\", don\'t impose on him.

A compulsory subject of the parents of premature infants in the family: developmental assessment

Doctor advised parents of premature infants, from child birth began observing, understanding actions, intellectual development of premature infants in order to seek medical advice when a problem arises, make timely remedy will harm to the light.

However, parents must bear in mind is that the mental development of premature infants, must be to correct age to assess (correction after birth age = age-(40-birth weeks gestation)/4). For example: weeks \' gestation only 32 weeks of the baby, is now 3 months of birth, his correct age =3-(40-32)/4=1 a month. When the child\'s height, weight and head circumference can be compared with the normal infant growth curves in January of age in the table. Correction of age used to children under 24 months (2 years).

Development of premature babies, such as the following:

Correction of 4 months old: head can be fixed.

Correction of age 6 months old: can turn over.

Correction 9 months old: will stand. Are premature babies born before 37 weeks of gestation. Premature infants \' growth is not yet ripe, weight below 2,500 grams, even if the weight of more than 2,500 grams, organs, organizations and development than term infants as mature.