babies
...ody while pregnant. Smoking, drinking alcohol, using drugs, and eating poorly are all causes of premature births. These babies have special needs when they are born because of the fact that they make their care different than full-term infants. Therefore, they begin their lives after delivery in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). This care provides an atmosphere of les stress, and gives the baby the warmth that it needs. It also provides nutrition and protection for it to properly grow and develop. Warmth is a major need for premature babies because they are mostly born with the lack of baby fat, that maintains their body temperature. They put the babies in an incubator or radiant warmers to keep their body temperatures normal. The babies are also cared for in nutrition because they grow at a faster rate than normal babies and their digestive systems are not fully developed. They feed the babies’ breast milk for a great source of nutri...