• Question: What is the youngest baby age you have treated?

    Asked by anon-225189 to Natalie on 21 Nov 2019.
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      Natalie Fowler answered on 21 Nov 2019:


      A normal gestation (time that the baby is inside the womb) is about 40 weeks. Some babies can be born a few weeks earlier and some can be a little later even. The youngest patient I have ever treated was born at just 22 weeks old! And weighted 450 grams, which is teeny weeny! If you think an everage sized lemon weighs about 100 grams

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