Frequency of child-birth with high delivery weight in a maternity ward, hospital in Prokuplje

Dragica, Božinović, Nebojša

Glasnik Antropološkog društva Jugoslavije

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2004-2021/11/05/09:41:49

Neonatus per magnum (too big new-born child), hypertrophic, macrosomny new -born child, "giant" baby, new-born child with big weight for gestation age all of these are synonyms for new-born child with weight more than 4500 grams after its birth. These new-born children belong to risky babies category, but there aren't enough scientific and professional works about them. There is a datum that they have higher morbidity then new-born children which correspond to their gestation age. New-born children need very careful observation in order to discover their birth injuries (intracranial bleeding paralyse of frenkules nerve and Erbozs paralyse), hypoglycemic and transitory tahipnea. We had been observing new-born children from 1991 up to 2000. There were 11185 children born, 124 of whom weighted 4500 grams and more, which is 1,1%. Most of these children were born spontaneously. They are mainly judged with a high APGAR score, which frequently contributed to a lack of care by doctors and nurses (and all those who take care of them). The curiosity is that the heaviest child ever born in our hospital, weighted 5500 grams.