What does it mean when an age is “corrected?”

It means the baby is 6 months but mentally there only 4 1/2 months since the baby came early.

Development wise as well

@Treya Can you elaborate? I don’t know why I can’t comprehend this. I feel so dumb right now. What’s the point in saying the corrected age if every baby develops at their own pace anyway? Like how would a parent track the corrected age/ where does that number come from?

Prem babies are classes as there due date until there one (that sound really complicated) but in your friends case here baby was born 1 and a half months early so all babies milestone will be measured as is they where born to term like a baby born at term may be trying to crawl rolling both ways ect but health professionals would maybe be looking for sitting up unaided laughing grasping (4 month milestone) it sound quite complicated but it’s basically just because each week when your pregnant is very important developmentally and babies born before term have to basically play catch up on the inside.

I think of premmie babies that came early. Like my friends baby came almost two months early at the same time another friends was was born on their due date. Which meant that when they were both 6mths...one was born 2 mths earlier than he should have come out so he was really small and not hitting milestones that the 6mth old was hitting because developmentally and physically he wasn't there yet.

It means they were born way too early and is not developing the same as other babies who were born at 40w. A baby born at 32w is in age older, but because he was born earlier he didn’t get to do the full development in utero as the next baby born at 40w. So 2 mums. Babies due exactly same week. One mum had her baby 8w earlier at 32w. Yes that baby is older. By 2m. But he is the same development as the baby born at 40w because that’s when he should’ve been born.

It’s when they are born early. For example my daughter was born 4 weeks early and until she was 1 year old her developmental age 4 weeks younger than she actually was I.e., when she was 12 weeks old she was only actually 8 weeks old x

Corrected is based off of the due date, for example my baby is 2.5 months “corrected” because his due date was February 11th, but he is “actual” 6 months because he was born October 30th (3.5 months early). Corrected age is what we use for developmental milestones and weight charts!

Yeah that means her baby was born early—probably a preemie. The “corrected age” is how old the baby would be if they were born on their actual due date. So in that example, her baby is 6 months old from birth, but only 4.5 months corrected, which means they were born about 6 weeks early. My daughter was born at 24 weeks, so she’s 1 year old now, but her corrected age is 8 months. Corrected age is mostly used to track things like cognitive and developmental milestones more accurately, since preemies usually need extra time to catch up. We don’t treat my daughter as a 1 year old as she’s developmentally only 8 months old