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DD was born at just over 34 weeks, and came home with me. No one ever suggested there was brain risk involved (they did try hard to keep from coming until lung maturity). I have certainly have never thought it a Miracle that she was developmentally normal and even (gasp!) became an extremely bright AAP student.   [/quote]
I am glad your daughter is OK.  Tell me - do you think it makes sense that another woman's daughter, who was conceived on the same night as your daughter but born at full term, isn't fit to attend K but your DD is?[/quote]

I'm the PP on this, and I'm not exactly sure what you are asking.  Here's an attempt to answer.  34-35 weeks is technically premie, and she spent extra time sleeping her first few weeks.  But after she wa six months old, we were not mentally age adjusting for anything, and she met her milestones.  So, when she was 5, it would have never crossed my mind to age adjust for K or to use her premie status As a favor in decision making.  [/quote]
OP here, and again, I'm glad your daughter is OK.  The point I was trying to make is this: if the timing aligned right, your daughter met the cut-off date to start kindergarten owing to nothing else but being born six weeks ahead of her due date.  You indicated that she is doing well in school and you are happy with her progress so it was right for her to start attending school when she did.  Yet if she had been born six weeks later - on her due date - she would have missed the cut-off, and would have had to start a year later.  And presumably, the same posters would have told you that you are crazy to contemplate starting her a year earlier.  Yet she is the same child - being born six weeks premature didn't add a full year of maturity to her brain or made her more fit to attend school than her peers born six weeks later.  Do you understand now why it seems so ironic to me that children born premature may be deemed "mature" enough to start school, while their peers born on time, a few weeks later, would be "too young"?[/quote]

My DD is the age she is.  She doesn't get her drivers license or social security or anything else age based at a different time because she was premie.  Same with schooling. And she was at age norm well before she turned 1, so there is no reason she should. [/quote]

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