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  • noun Plural form of premie;alternative spelling of preemies.

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  • There are a few little things that are quite common in "premies" that will, I hope, resolve themselves, but I feel that the storm has calmed.

    Top stories from Times Online 2009

  • I still argue that free neo natal care could save more than it costs when you factor post delivery conditions, premies, etc, free access to GPs would prevent a lot of costly illneses,, still the legislation as writen is too long and complex to even know what it means or what it will cost.

    Crystal balls : The Five Year View Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2009

  • No scientific evidence exists which supports a DNA change or nature of being change via birth (evident especially since everybody knows that everybody knows about premies and about c-sections and similar).

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Speech and Spending 2010

  • I imagine the margin would increase if the data were further adjusted to normalize the data for premature births (in europe premies that die within a certain time period are counted as stillbirths and aren't figured in the life expectancy statistics).

    More Health Care xtra 2009

  • I imagine the margin would increase if the data were further adjusted to normalize the data for premature births (in europe premies that die within a certain time period are counted as stillbirths and aren't figured in the life expectancy statistics).

    Archive 2009-08-01 xtra 2009

  • On the matter of premies, more research needs to be done as different countries have different definitions of “live birth” making infant motality stats difficult to compare.

    Matthew Yglesias » Universal Catastrophic Insurance? 2010

  • In 2007, nurses working for the Boulder Colorado department of health taught the five S's to 42 high-risk families (teen parents, addicts, parents of premies, etc.) with irritable babies.

    Harvey Karp: The Secret To Getting Your Baby To Sleep 2010

  • Tip #1: Volunteer at a children's hospital: their needs are many, from holding and rocking sick premies when their moms can't, to reading to cancer patients, to comforting their parents.

    Ron Mirenda: Change and Charity: How You Can Ensure They Both Survive 2009

  • Perhaps she should be the one participating in this discussion, but she's currently at work, keeping premies alive, so our national health outcome statistics don't get any worse.

    A Taste of Economic Ridicule, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • They were premies, and I was determined to nurse them because they seemed to need the boost.

    You Know That You’re THAT MOM When… | Her Bad Mother 2007

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