"White petals": Russia celebrates the day of premature babies

Today, November 17th, around the world celebrate Day of premature babies. In Russia, it is called the Day of white petals.

Today, all the perinatal centers and maternity hospitals of the country will open their doors for the little “fighters” for life - parents and children who were born prematurely and were able to overcome all difficulties are waiting for them.

Premature babies are considered to be were born before the 37th week of pregnancy, the doctors call them "agile".

The main danger of preterm birth is that babies are born with immature lung tissue and low birth weight. The first becomes the cause of respiratory failure, the second - an obstacle to the preservation of the heat of the baby's own body. About 8% of all deliveries are premature. The less gestation at the time of the birth of the baby, the harder it is to save his life.

On White Petals Day, parents get the opportunity to meet and chat, share experiences. Doctors at perinatal centers are waiting for their former patients to see how they grew and how much success they have achieved.

In Volgograd today needlewomen from all over the city are planning Live local TV channel synchronously tie warm clothes for premature babies (such children really need warming), things will be transferred to maternity hospitals.

In Samara, a charity marathon will be held to raise funds for the purchase of new resuscitation equipment, which will allow nursing premature crumbs.

At the same time, the whole of Khabarovsk today is following the fate of a premature girl, who was born recently. The parents forbade the doctors to operate it, and when the doctors obtained permission for the operation necessary to save the child, in court, the mom and dad refused the baby.

Baby appeared on the 25th week of pregnancy. She survived one of the triplets. Her condition was extremely difficult. In order to improve her impaired blood circulation, an operation was needed, but her parents refused to save the child. Then the doctors decided to save the girl at any cost, and received permission from the court.

The girl has already been operated on, the parents have formalized the rejection of the child. After the treatment is completed, the baby will be sent to the baby house, although this option is unlikely - today in Khabarovsk there is a mass of people willing to adopt the crumbsBecause the whole city is watching the girl weighing only a few hundred grams fighting for life.

That is why in 2009 and was established Day of premature babies. He was first marked by parent organizations and Australian doctors. In 2011, the day became international.

By the way, on this day it would be useful to remind that premature babies after the year are no different from full-term babies, with rare exceptions, when the baby appeared too early and failed to avoid consequences for its central nervous system.

There are among the premature and their geniuses: Isaac Newton was born prematurely, Albert Einstein was born much earlier than the deadline. Leonardo da Vinci was born very weak long before the deadline. The list of great premature babies can be supplemented with such names as Dmitri Mendeleev, Jean Jacques Rousseau, ballet dancer Anna Pavlova.