My wife has been managing kids like this for two decades as an advanced practice NICU nurse. Over that time, the threshold of maturity necessary for survival has dropped by about a week and generally speaking, the prognosis over a lifetime has become worse. A very few do well.
Most of these kids are conceived to women with serious problems (drugs and such). The vast majority are on public assistance. The cost is well over a million, each. Instead of focusing resources on attaining a lower gestational threshold, we'd help more kids live better lives with less money if we focused upon better prenatal care.
“Most of these kids are conceived to women with serious problems (drugs and such). The vast majority are on public assistance. The cost is well over a million, each. Instead of focusing resources on attaining a lower gestational threshold, we’d help more kids live better lives with less money if we focused upon better prenatal care. “
Sounds like the mothers need to be in a Nervous Hospital while pregnant so they can’t do drugs and get prenatal care. Yea I know the dems will bellyache about that but it’s what must be done.