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Preterm Newborn Challenges

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2.2.7. Challenges of caring for preterm newborns at home.
Caring for a preterm newborn is a herculean task with so many challenges in the form of psychological, physical and financial due to the extra care it requires. A healthy term baby born is always a joy and called for celebration by both immediate and extended family members but in the case of preterm birth, parents are left with feeling of fear and grief due to the anticipated challenges that they may face.

A qualitative study done Nabiwemba et al (2014) on recognition and home care of low birth weight neonates which are similar to preterm babies found out that, the major challenges of mothers caring for these babies were the issue of not bathing the baby, not giving other foods except
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