Open AccessMother Goose in the NICU: Support for the Neediest Infants and Their Families
Author(s) -
Betsy Diamant-Cohen,
Susan Sonnenschein,
Dawn Sacks,
Summer Rosswog,
Brenda HusseyGardner
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
children and libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2374-7641
pISSN - 1542-9806
DOI - 10.5860/cal.16.1.3
Subject(s) - goose , gestation , medicine , pediatrics , obstetrics , demography , psychology , pregnancy , biology , sociology , genetics , paleontology
Of the 76,510 babies born during an average week in the United States, 7,361—or about 10 percent—are born prematurely.1 Preterm babies, born before the thirty-seventh week of gestation, can be born with underdeveloped organ systems and other health problems that impact their ability to survive on their own outside of the womb.