What is a full-term baby

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As the saying goes, the birth of a baby requires the mother to be pregnant for 10 months. Some babies will be born early if they are worried. Let's share the knowledge about full-term baby.

What is a full-term baby

First of all, small sample infants (also known as small for gestational age infants, intrauterine growth retardation) refers to a group of newborns whose birth weight is lower than the 10th percentile of the average weight of the same gestational age infants, or less than 2 standard deviations of the average weight. There are premature, full-term and expired small sample.

Then the birth weight of full-term small sample infants (gestational age ≥ 37 weeks, < 42 weeks) was less than 2500 g, which was the most common in small sample infants. Small sample infants may be the result of fetal intrauterine growth restriction, and some of them belong to healthy newborns with small growth and development.

Finally, due to the full gestational age, but the low ability after birth, this kind of baby is prone to meconium aspiration, hypothermia, polycythemia, hypoglycemia, intrauterine infection and other congenital abnormalities, especially development, neurobehavioral and mental retardation, and the mortality rate of small sample baby is 8 times of that of normal full-term baby, so now we all attach great importance to the problem of small sample baby, and parents should pay more attention to it Yes, the development of children is very important.

matters needing attention

Parents should pay more attention to the baby's physical development, eat more nutritious food for the baby, maintain indoor air circulation, and open the window regularly to replace fresh air. Never expose premature babies to second-hand smoke, and parents must avoid smoking indoors.