Fleishman is an attending neonatologist at Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia who writes about caring for her infant patients and their families. Every day, as I rush to preterm deliveries on the ...
A typical human pregnancy lasts 40 weeks, but most parents know this number is only a rough estimate. Babies are born on a seemingly unpredictable timeline, with a normal pregnancy ranging from 38 to ...
The number of preterm and early-term births in the U.S. increased between 2014 and 2022, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The preterm birth rate — babies ...