still a blessed event. and b, they said, we ve got this. we ve seen this before. you are in good hands because we know what we re doing. it s hard for the parents, because you re supposed to be the primary and indeed exclusive caregiver, and suddenly you re barely allowed near the baby. you re at the level 4 nicus putting the baby into the hands of a team of people who need manage these crises. jeffrey, talk about the support systems that i presume have been developed now, because of technology being so good. it probably helps parents if they re able to be connected to the hospital by other parents who have gone through something like this and makes the journey that much better. that s right. and there are what the milwaukee hospital calls connection links, or learning bridges, that allow parents to connect to their families through blogs, through websites, so that you re getting the information out there to the people who love your baby. that s a big part of it. there is a communi
develops within the hospital. there s a community that develops among the parents in the nicu. remember, these kids are there, they generally are not discharged until what would have been 37 weeks of gestation. so if you re born at 22 weeks, that s a 15-week stay. now, the thing about that is, though, you get this sense of relative mortality. there s not a family in any nicu that somebody doesn t envy and there s not a family in any nicu that any family doesn t ache for. the only families nobody wants to be are the families whose babies aren t coming home. there s a population of those in every nicu. jeffrey, thank you very much. the issue that got speaker boehner choked up today on the hill. i was there for that. and what s turning china and russia into drinking buddies. love that video? you ll get more of it next. look at putin put it back. (whispering) yeah really good (whispering) yeah and for a family of 4 it s a $160 a month.
this week s time cover story takes a look at the amazing advancements to make sure even the tineiest babies survive and ultimately thrive. jeffrey krueger joins us at the table in new york. jeffrey, run through some of the key medical advances made to move the survival rates from 28% chance of survival to now 78%. quite extraordinary. it is. a lot of it has to do with team care, with the development of what are called level 4 nicus, or neonatal intensive care units. babies get around-the-clock care by a team of specialists that include neonatologists, nutritionists, that include even speech pathologists, believe it or not, because what they do is teach babies how to use their mouths. that s the most important thing they need to do when they don t know how to drink. they coordinate swallowing, breathing, sucking. a complicated thing for them to do. it s incredible how far we ve
ers, and honoring those who fought and died for our country and their families. this month marks 150 years since the first military burials took place at arlington national cemetery. the president will be there monday for the wreath laying ceremony at the tomb of the unknown. before you head out, we want to give you a full summer preview, cycle style. politics, movies, and the summer s biggest surprises. senior editor at the atlantic, covering all of it, he s here to break down the list. you were the first name to come to mind about who can talk about everything. thank you very much. we will make sure you re prepared for any dinner table conversation that might come up over the weekend. let s start with politics. because washington, as luke knows, is pretty much dead in the summer. but, you know, what could heat up are the republicans efforts to really start with the scandals. the va, benghazi. how much are they going to be able to do that? the question is what s going
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