2007), promotes cell survival and proliferation (Jin‐qiao et al. 2009; Zhu et al. 2018), and can modulate inflammatory responses (Woodbury and Ikezu 2014). FGF‐2 has also been shown to exert neuroprotective effects in multiple models of neonatal hypoxia‐ischemia (Celik, Atici, et al. 2016; Celik, Resitoglu, et al. 2016; Hu et al. 2017; Lin et al. 2017; Ye et al. 2018), and may play a role in other complications of preterm birth, for example, intraventricular haemorrhage (Finkel et al. 2023). Here, FGF2 is linked to Intraventricular hemorrhage.