Patient's question:
My baby is a preterm infant, a survivor of premature rupture of membranes before full term. What is the corrected age of my baby?Doctor's answer:
Use corrected age until the child reaches 24 months (2 years). All organs of premature infants have formed, but they missed the rapid growth phase during the late pregnancy (last trimester), even very premature infants born before 28 weeks have not experienced this process. More importantly, brain development also occurs rapidly during the late stages of pregnancy. If observing the physical and motor development of infants at 32 weeks or even 28 weeks based on the standard of 40 weeks of full term, it is clear that no one is normal for such premature infants. Evaluating the growth and development of children based on their own fetal developmental age is more accurate.