The baby will almost certainly need oxygen support at 26~28 weeks development. The best place would be in a NICU.
Your wife should be in a hospital that has on-site a level 3+ NICU. If you are not in that hospital now, you need to request a transfer to such a hospital before birth if at all possible. This will improve logistics of your newborn in NICU receiving nutrition from mommies milk. Otherwise, any competent lower level of care hospital will be transferring the premature baby to a Level 3+ NICU facility.
Additionally, your wife should be receiving magnesium sulfate and also likely supplement with a corticosteroid which will help with lung development in the baby. The issue with premature lung development is that the lungs are not producing sufficient surfactant (there is a synthetic version of this that can be administered if needed) which can cause the inside membranes on the surface of the lungs to stick to each other and when air is inhaled, this can lead to over pressure in a small area which can pop similar to a balloon leading to air in the abdominal cavity / collapsed lung.
Also regarding feedings, it is very important that your wife breast feed the baby (especially during the hospitalization period). You should invest in a quality breast pump. You should research a high fat nutrient and protiens rich diet and supplements to insure mothers breast milk is fortified. Also, do what you can to help the mothers milk come in quickly after birth. Your childs NICU stay is likely to be about a month or slightly longer if there are no significant issues outside of prematurity and weight/size.
It is important that you research and request human milk fortifier breast supplement. I strongly advise against cow milk fortifier because it can cause many issues in a premies digestive system. Soy based fortifier is also not a good choice for it's own reasons. However, with the problems from the vaccine spike protiens being passed through breast milk, this may require more research for you now than it did for me 9 years ago. As a side note, we fortified breast milk at home (after getting out of the NICU) with high quality olive oil and an iron supplement dropper. There is food fraud in olive oil, so if you go that route, again do your research. Our child was showing allergy to soy and dairy by this time, so we ditched the formula industry altogether rather than continuing to play the further broken down soy protein game bs they try to push on parents.
The NICU doctors and nurses will likely do things and tell you it is medically necessary after the fact. I would suggest you ask that they advise you of what their plans are in the coming days and how they plan to respond to contingencies prior to you coming in during visiting time and finding out about it after the fact. You are the parent and you can make them run medical decisions through you. Often they need to be reminded of this as 99% of parents just go with the flow and don't get involved in what is medically being done.
Vitamin k is good, I recommend against most any vaccine they wish to give. Bradycardia and apnea are fairly common for premature babies in NICU, it will likely become one of the goals that must be met before they release the child from the hospital. Get to know your nurses and NICU doctors. Try to be around when the doctor does the rounds. Otherwise you are playing a game of telephone with the nurse telling you what the other nurse told her about what the doctor said. This means you don't get a complete picture of the doctors thoughts and you won't be able to get more than speculation from the nurse.
The baby will almost certainly need oxygen support at 26~28 weeks development. The best place would be in a NICU.
Your wife should be in a hospital that has on-site a level 3+ NICU. If you are not I that hospital now. You need to request a transfer to such a hospital before birth if at all possible. This will improve logistics of your newborn in NICU receiving nutrition from mommies milk. Otherwise, any competent lower level of care hospital will be transferring the premature baby to a Level 3+ NICU facility.
Additionally, your wife should be receiving magnesium sulfate and also likely supplement with a corticosteroid which will help with lung development in the baby. The issue with premature lung development is that the lungs are not producing sufficient surfactant (there is a synthetic version of this that can be administered if needed) which can cause the inside membranes on the surface of the lungs to stick to each other and when air is inhaled, this can lead to over pressure in a small area which can pop similar to a balloon leading to air in the abdominal cavity / collapsed lung.
Also regarding feedings, it is very important that your wife breast feed the baby (especially during the hospitalization period). You should invest in a quality breast pump. You should research a high fat nutrient and protiens rich diet and supplements to insure mothers breast milk is fortified. Also, do what you can to help the mothers milk come in quickly after birth. Your childs NICU stay is likely to be about a month or slightly longer if there are no significant issues outside of prematurity and weight/size.
It is important that you research and request human milk fortifier breast supplement. I strongly advise against cow milk fortifier because it can cause many issues in a premies digestive system. Soy based fortifier is also not a good choice for it's own reasons. However, with the problems from the vaccine spike protiens being passed through breast milk, this may require more research for you now than it did for me 9 years ago. As a side note, we fortified breast milk at home (after getting out of the NICU) with high quality olive oil and an iron supplement dropper. There is food fraud in olive oil, so if you go that route, again do your research. Our child was showing allergy to soy and dairy by this time, so we ditched the formula industry altogether rather than continuing to play the further broken down soy protein game bs they try to push on parents.
The NICU doctors and nurses will likely do things and tell you it is medically necessary after the fact. I would suggest you ask that they advise you of what their plans are in the coming days and how they plan to respond to contingencies prior to you coming in during visiting time and finding out about it after the fact. You are the parent and you can make them run medical decisions through you. Often they need to be reminded of this as 99% of parents just go with the flow and don't get involved in what is medically being done.
Vitamin k is good, I recommend against most any vaccine they wish to give. Bradycardia and apnea are fairly common for premature babies in NICU, it will likely become one of the goals that midst be met before they release the child from the hospital. Get to know your nurses and NICU doctors. Try to be around when the doctor does the rounds. Otherwise you are playing a game of telephone with the nurse telling you what the other nurse told her about what the doctor said. Totally this means you don't get a complete picture of the doctors thoughts and you won't be able to get more than speculation from the nurse.