"I was shocked when I saw how small my baby was: she weighed 1lb 11oz. They fed her through a tube in the hospital and even when they put her on a bottle, apparently she was the smallest baby that ever sucked a bottle".
One in every fifteen babies born in this country is premature. Some are so tiny it seems impossible that they can live; but nowadays, even the smallest baby has a good chance of surviving the first anxious weeks and of growing into a perfectly healthy child
In the programme a specialist talks about the care of very small babies and an obstetrician explains why some babies are premature and -what mothers can do to reduce the risk of having a premature baby

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