The phrase "a very infant" is not correct and not commonly used in written English.
It is typically incorrect because "infant" is a noun that does not require an adjective like "very" to modify it in this context.
Example: "The hospital has a very infant in the neonatal unit." (This is incorrect usage.)
Alternatives: "a very young child" or "a very small baby."
As risk profiles were similar across deprivation groups, we would expect that the average costs of neonatal care for a very preterm infant would be comparable for infants from all areas, irrespective of their level of exposure to deprivation.
15 Because of variations in the perceptions of the viability of a very preterm infant and consequent differences in the reporting of live births in low gestation infants 16 we included all those infants with the potential to be live born that is, infants alive at the onset of labour.
Conclusions: The birth and subsequent hospitalisation of a very premature infant evokes considerable psychological distress in mothers.
Because surely - perhaps with the help of a small trampoline - a very bouncy infant could manage to get in and out of bed without those steps?
Background: The birth of a very premature infant is a critical event in the life of a family and studies have shown that mothers of these infants are at greater risk of psychological distress than mothers of full-term infants.
When I asked her neurologist whether Mom knew on any level what we were doing, he replied, "A very young infant does not understand cognitively what her parents are saying to her or doing for her but understands, on some emotional level, that they love her".
To show just how dependent infants are on their caretakers, Ruddick provides the example of Julie, an over-extended young mother with a very needful infant.
Despite that poverty and the political repression, it maintains a high birth rate as well as a very high infant mortality rate, and its population is quite young.
Two days with a very sick infant must have felt like an eternity".
Initially he found it "a very sickly infant", but under his leadership it expanded rapidly, and soon had over 20,000 members in 600 branches.
