Definitions
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- noun Alternative spelling of
preemie . - noun A follower of the
controversial spiritual leader Prem Rawat (born 1957).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an infant that is born prior to 37 weeks of gestation
Etymologies
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Examples
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I also had issues with my last pregnancy – complications/premie, depression, hurt my back (after giving birth - long story).
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Tiny premie Mae was too little to breastfeed from a human nipple and Kathryn was committed enough to breastfeeding that she pumped.
Ethan Sandler: Seahorses and Similac Ethan Sandler 2010
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Tiny premie Mae was too little to breastfeed from a human nipple and Kathryn was committed enough to breastfeeding that she pumped.
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Our friend's daughter had a premie baby a couple of years ago.
Thank You, Bill Maher, For Asking Where in the World is Barack Obama and What is He Going To Do About Healthcare? Anne Dunev 2010
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But I had three kids 4 years apart (they are now 23, 25, & 27) one would not sleep during the night and rarely napped (she's 25 now & still loves to stay up all night) and one was a premie who had to be fed every two hours and it would take an hour to feed her because feeding would exhaust her.
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Our friend's daughter had a premie baby a couple of years ago.
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Our friend's daughter had a premie baby a couple of years ago.
Anne Dunev: Thank You, Bill Maher, For Asking Where in the World is Barack Obama and What is He Going To Do About Healthcare? Anne Dunev 2010
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The week or more they spent in the premie intensive care nursery cost no more than if their mom had delivered normally and gone home with them the next day.
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The price of prenatal care, information, and support is chump change compared to the potential cost of not offering it (in a too-common scenario: a preterm birth that could have been prevented with earlier, routine care delivers a tiny, critically ill premie requiring months of NICU care, followed by a lifetime of care for any disabilities or chronic health problems caused by that too-early birth).
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Our friend's daughter had a premie baby a couple of years ago.
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