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Everything there is to know week by week. FREE More than 21,000
premature babies are born in Australia every year and over 6,000
will require critical life support and medical intervention.
Being born prematurely can be detrimental to a babies' mental
and physical development. What is premature birth? A full-term
pregnancy is between 37 and 42 weeks, so a baby born prior to 37
weeks is considered premature or pre-term. In Australia, about
8.5% of babies are born prematurely, mostly between 32 and 37
weeks. What are the survival odds of a premature baby? The
closer your baby is to full-term, the better the survival odds.
With each extra week spent in your womb, your baby's chances of
survival are increased. A baby born at 24 weeks has a 58% chance
of living, but this rises to 98% or more by the time the she
reaches 28 - 30 weeks. Ho