"Premature birth occurs in between 8 percent to 10 percent of all pregnancies in the United States." I got this quote from Medline Plus and this quote is stating just what it said 8 to 10 percent of all births are participants within early births. That is like 1 out of 10 births are premature. i want to know why why these births are so prominent? Then i would like to know is there anything we as a people could do to reduce this high birth rates. After searching this website it lead me to another website called ACOG. ACOG stated that, "Studies found that babies born before the 23rd week of pregnancy were not likely to survive. About one half of the babies born at the 25th week survived. By the 26th week of pregnancy, the survival chances increased to 76%. But most of the babies who survived had serious health problems 18–22 months later." Within this quote ACOG pronounced all of the different survival chances one may have by the week it was born. Then this quote also goes on to say that a year or two after the baby is born it will have a high risk of having a very dis-functional life.
Medline Plus, . "Premature Babies." Trusted Help Information 23 February 2011: 1. Web. 29 Mar 2011. <http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/prematurebabies.html>.
ACOG, . "Early Preterm Birth." 2011: 1. Web. 29 Mar 2011. <http://www.acog.org/publications/patient_education/bp173.cfm>.
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