Group B streptococcus (strep) is a type of bacteria. It can be found in the digestive tract, urinary tract, and genital area of adults. About 1 in 4 pregnant women carry GBS in their rectum or vagina. During pregnancy, the mother can pass the infection to the baby. The fetus can get GBS during pregnancy. Newborns can get it from the mother’s genital tract during delivery.
During pregnancy, the fetal lungs are not used for breathing – the placenta does the work of exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide through the mother’s circulation. With the first breaths of air the baby takes at birth, the fetal circulation changes.
The benefits of breastmilk are even higher for babies who are born high-risk. Read on for helpful information on breast pumps, methods for expressing milk, freezing extra breastmilk, and more.
You will have to remove milk from your breasts on a regular basis if you are to provide enough of your milk for your high-risk baby.
NICUs are equipped with complex machines and devices to monitor nearly every system of a baby’s body–temperature, heart rate, breathing, oxygen and carbon dioxide levels, and blood pressure.
A diaphragmatic hernia is a birth defect. It happens in a baby during pregnancy. In this condition, there’s an opening in your baby’s diaphragm. This is the muscle that separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity.
