How long will my baby stay in the hospital?
Perhaps one of the main questions you keep asking yourself is: ‘When can we take our baby home?’ The answer depends on your baby’s needs. It might be several days to weeks and sometimes even months. Many premature babies get home about the date of their expected day of delivery. If nobody tells you how long the baby’s stay can be, do not hesitate to ask the doctors or the nurses.
You can always ask about everything you are interested in because as a parent you have the right to know.
Although there is no single answer to this question, to be able to get an idea of the time a premature baby stays in the hospital, depending on when it is born, we present you a study of Foundation ‘Miracle Babies’ made among families with premature babies. The answers of 625 families participating in the study have been compiled and the medium length has been calculated.
It is important to specify that this is rough statistics, because we should not forget that every child is unique. That is why their stay in the intensive care unit is different.
| Birth in gestation week | Average stay in the hospital |
| 24th week | 133 days (19 weeks) |
| 25th week | 108 days (15 weeks + 3 days) |
| 26th week | 101 days (14 weeks + 3 days) |
| 27th week | 80 days (11 weeks + 3 days) |
| 28th week | 76 days (10 weeks + 6 days) |
| 29th week | 75 days (10 weeks + 5 days) |
| 30th week | 50 days (7 weeks + 1 day) |
| 31st week | 49 days (7 weeks) |
| 32nd week | 36 days (5 weeks + 1 day) |
| 33rd week | 27 days (3 weeks + 6 days) |
| 34th week | 21 days (3 weeks) |
| 35th week | 16 days (2 weeks + 2 days) |
| 36th week | 11 days (1 week + 4 days) |
E-book
If you would like to download the book "All about premature babies" for offline reading you can currently download it as PDF or EPUB file.
