Critical care of premature and sick babies is a very interesting and difficult job. There are multiple things to take into consideration when deciding how to care for the mother and baby/fetus. From when the baby is conceived to when the baby is born, there are many things parents worry about. One of these biggest fears can be having a baby prematurely to the normal forty weeks. There are many statistics showing that the rate of premature babies living is increasing. Although that rate is increasing, there are still many obstacles for the baby and parents as the baby gets older. Due to the baby being born premature, there is a higher chance of the baby having some kind of disability. Regardless of how premature a baby is, it is the doctors
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The more prematurely born they are, the more likely they are to have a disability. By around twenty-five to twenty-six weeks most will be born with mild or no disability. A mild disability can be something as small as having to wear glasses, or even having a slightly lower IQ …show more content…
Even if the baby has no chance of getting better, their obligation as a doctor is to maintain life. There is a difference though in trying to relieve the mothers pain and accidentally causing death. Medicine and pain relievers are a sensitive subject when it comes to pregnant women. At one end of the spectrum, you want the mothers to not be in pain, and on the other end, you don’t want to hurt the baby. It can be a hard and confusing thing to prescribe a pregnant woman medicine.
The tough decisions that are made are hard on everyone. Sometimes people forget that if this baby is okay and gets to go home, then that child may have problems that have to live with their whole life. Some parent’s concerns are that they may not know how to financially be stable for a child with special needs, or how to manage the life of someone with a child with a disability. This is a problem as sometimes the children who survived premature birth aren’t given the attention they need, because everyone is still trying to rescue ill babies, rather than supporting the ones who
The more prematurely born they are, the more likely they are to have a disability. By around twenty-five to twenty-six weeks most will be born with mild or no disability. A mild disability can be something as small as having to wear glasses, or even having a slightly lower IQ …show more content…
Even if the baby has no chance of getting better, their obligation as a doctor is to maintain life. There is a difference though in trying to relieve the mothers pain and accidentally causing death. Medicine and pain relievers are a sensitive subject when it comes to pregnant women. At one end of the spectrum, you want the mothers to not be in pain, and on the other end, you don’t want to hurt the baby. It can be a hard and confusing thing to prescribe a pregnant woman medicine.
The tough decisions that are made are hard on everyone. Sometimes people forget that if this baby is okay and gets to go home, then that child may have problems that have to live with their whole life. Some parent’s concerns are that they may not know how to financially be stable for a child with special needs, or how to manage the life of someone with a child with a disability. This is a problem as sometimes the children who survived premature birth aren’t given the attention they need, because everyone is still trying to rescue ill babies, rather than supporting the ones who