A google search reveals that premature babies take around 3 years to catch up, but a premature baby is obviously not born more than a couple months earlier than they “should” be. Why does it take so long for them to develop, why wouldn’t they just continue growing as they would have inside the womb?
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The lungs typically suffer in premature births. With dodgy lungs the child has to work harder to breathe for the first few years (or longer), this extra energy requirement causes them to grow slower. Also consider there’s normally a reason why the child is born early – like growth restriction.
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