Premature infant

Possible complications include:

• Hyaline membrane disease (respiratory distress syndrome)
• Bleeding into the brain (intraventricular hemorrhage)
• Retinopathy and associated visual loss or blindness
• Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD)
• Heart disease
• Severe intestinal inflammation (necrotizing enterocolitis)
• Jaundice
• Infection or septicemia
• Anemia
• Low blood glucose (hypoglycemia)
• Delayed growth and development
• Mental-motor retardation

Call your health care provider if you are pregnant and believe you are going into labor prematurely.

If you are pregnant, and not receiving prenatal care, call your health care provider or the State Department of Health. Most Health Departments have programs to ensure that pregnant mothers, whether covered by insurance or not, able to pay or not, receive adequate prenatal care. They will direct you to the appropriate provider.

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