Why do premature babies take so long to “catch up” in size to babies born at a normal time?

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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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Thoes ‘couple of months’ are extremely important. (Remember that a whole pregnancy is not even a year). And we cannot (yet) reproduce the womb conditions.
So in conclusion as of right now, is actually a miracle we can keep the babies alive .

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