A Premature Infant Weighing 735 Grams and Surviving

The Care of Premature Infants

“…Figure III shows the initial loss in weight and the gain up to the age of 100 days. Figure IV shows the infant at 1 maintenance of body temperature, proper feeding, and protection from infection. Rommel emphasized the importance of applying warmth immediately after birth and of keeping the infant in a warm room.…”

Beginnings of behavior.

“…One writer has estimated that the range in age of newborn babies who are viable, or capable of living, is as wide as from twenty-six to fortysix weeks (24). Although the average birth weight is a little above seven pounds for girls, and a little under seven and a half for boys, babies have survived who weighed as little as one and a half pounds or even less (27). However, according to findings reviewed by Benton, it is unlikely that a child weighing less than about two and a half pounds will survive, and the chances of survival increase with added weight up to four or five pounds (5).…”