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Poor maternal weight gain between 28 and 32 weeks gestation may predict small‐for‐gestational‐age infants
Author(s) -
LAWTON FRANK G.,
MASON GERALD C.,
KELLY KRYSTYNA,
RAMSAY IAN N.,
MOREWOOD GEOFFREY A.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1988.tb06574.x
Subject(s) - gestation , gestational age , birth weight , weight gain , medicine , obstetrics , low birth weight , pregnancy , body weight , biology , genetics
Summary. In a retrospective analysis of 158 women considered to have had normal, low‐risk pregnancies, 30 gave birth to infants with a birth‐weight less than the 10th centile for gestation. These 30 women had a significantly poorer mean increase in weight (0·99 kg) between 28 and 32 weeks gestation than the other 128 women (1·95 kg) who gave birth to infants with birthweights above the 10th centile for gestation. There was no statistically significant difference in booking weight, overall weight gain or other variables associated with low birthweight between the two groups of women which suggests that poor maternal weight gain specifically between 28 and 32 weeks gestation may predict small‐for‐gestational‐age infants.