Daily Archives: April 13, 2021

A few times a day, Barnaby will stop breathing and his heart rate will drop. Alarms sound, nurses rush in, time stands still. In most preterm babies this “apnea of prematurity”, colloquially known as “spells”, will resolve at 34 to 36 weeks gestational age. That means that we have many more weeks of this terrifyingContinue reading “Spells are scary, Day 23”