Premature baby

"I wasn’t ready to give birth to a baby who I couldn’t kiss or cuddle." Zoe writes about what it's like to care for a premature baby.

Naomi Gill was born weighing just 2 lb 1 oz at 25 weeks in 1995 - and is graduating from university this year with a degree in performing arts. The first generation of premature babies are growing up.

"It’s the stuff in the middle."

Find out what to expect when your premature baby is in the NICU. Written by the father or 2 NICU babies, and a career paramedic.

So. Cute. So. Tiny.

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Labor pains and delivery - these very words make a pregnant woman nervous. Although she cherishes her journey of pregnancy, she'll also put up a brave front while undergoing those innumerable, and often painful, physical changes.

First-time mother Laura Hough, from Walton, Liverpool, delivered twins Neve and Louie via an emergency C-sectionat 30 weeks because Neve wasn't getting enough nutrients in the womb.

They're truly fighters.

Courtney Stensrud, 36, spoke to DailyMail.com about the fears she had for her daughter, how she learned to become a parent to a preemie and what advice she would offer other parents.