Dr. Mehmet Oz
has some cautionary words for Kim Kardashian
and Kanye West: He
knows first-hand what it's like to have a five-weeks-premature baby -- and it's
not easy. Far from it, in fact.
The host of The Dr. Oz Show spoke at the Daytime Emmy Awards on June 16 in Beverly
Hills about his thoughts on the new parents' pre-term baby girl. (A newborn is
considered premature if born before 37 weeks of pregnancy; Kardashian and West's
daughter was born June 15, after 35 weeks of pregnancy.) "I've been following
Kim's story,
which I have a personal interest in aside from being a doctor," he shares. "Our
youngest child [Oliver] was born five weeks premature. So I know how
hair-raising that is, and the most important thing to recognize is today, we can
actually get kids to survive almost always, but if you don't manage them really
well early on, they can grow up to develop all kinds of issues."
The new parents will
need to really put the focus on their pre-term newborn in the coming weeks, he
says. "We change how a child responds to a world around it in those first few
weeks of life, so they ought to really focus in on that little girl."
"It's sacred, those first few months, for all babies but
especially for the premature," he explains. "It's a sacred time. They should
focus on the child."
Dr. Oz reveals that
his own pre-term son left the hospital after just two days at the hospital, but
once home, "he would turn blue and pass out, which would scare me. And I'm a
doctor, so maybe they let him to my care [early], but it's a little
nerve-wracking." The Oprah-approved celebrity doctor has four kids, Daphne,
Arabella, Zoe and Oliver, with his wife Lisa. LOOD Naija
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