Family Tips

They too hurry to be born. And while there are argues in a society, whether their lives should be saved in general, they persistently cling to life with their tiny fingers. They are “microchildren”, or as say doctors, prematurely born children with extreme weight of a body, that is children, whose weight at a birth makes less than 1 kg.

Prematurely born is the kid who has been given birth from 22 till 37 gestational weeks and with weight from 500 g. Such is provision of the World Health Organization. However there are various degrees of prematurity. The basic criterion is the weight of a body. So, if the child is born with weight less than 1 kg he is prematurely born with extreme weight; up to 1,5 kg - prematurely born with low weight of a body, and more than 1,5 kg - simply prematurely born.

There are also “records” in this area

So the American doctors have managed to rescue a life of the newborn girl born on the 22-nd week of pregnancy and weighing only 284 g. According to Iowa University, which traces the statistics on prematurely born children all over the world, it is the shortest term fixed for the survived baby.