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This volume analyses the distinct care needs of late preterm infants and their parents by reflecting on the best available evidence to inform on practice and latest innovations in care. It addresses the spectrum of issues experienced by late preterm infants and their parents to ensure their health life trajectories. We define late preterm infants as those born between 34 0/7 to 36 6/7 weeks’ gestational age. The book uses creative writing prompts and a narrative style to gain insight and self-reflection in and on practice to move the reader to embracing best practices. Issues such as mother’s physical and emotional health, father’s burden in postpartum period and neurodevelopmental outcomes of late preterm infants are specifically addressed. Areas of innovation are shared for consideration to prompt readers thinking about continuous improvement in quality of care. The book shares local and global perspectives to address the common concerns related to care of late preterm infants and their families, and to foster a partnership in promoting their health all across the globe. It is intended to any health care providers such as nurses, midwives, physicians and other allied care professionals like health visitors, community health workers.

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This dissertation by Erik Wejryd examines the effects of probiotics and prebiotics on extremely preterm infants, particularly those with extremely low birth weight. The research focuses on the potential benefits of the probiotic bacterium L. reuteri DSM 17938 in improving feeding tolerance, growth, and neurological outcomes while reducing the incidence of necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) and sepsis. The study involves a double-blind trial with 134 infants, investigating the colonisation of L. reuteri and the impact of human milk oligosaccharides on NEC and growth. Results indicate that while L. reuteri did not significantly affect feeding intolerance, it was associated with improved cranial growth and language development. The study aims to guide future strategies for feeding and probiotic supplementation in extremely preterm infants.

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The recommendations in this guideline are intended to inform development of national and subnational health policies, clinical protocols and programmatic guides. The target audience includes national and subnational public health policy-makers, implementers and managers of maternal, newborn and child health programmes, health-care facility managers, supervisors/instructors for in-service training, health workers (including midwives, auxiliary nurse-midwives, nurses, paediatricians, neonatologists, general medical practitioners and community health workers), nongovernmental organizations, professional societies involved in the planning and management of maternal, newborn and child health services, academic staff involved in research and in the pre-service education and training of health workers, and those involved in the education of parents.

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