Patient's question:
I just had a baby. He rarely cries. He also rarely moves. Even when he cries, his voice is very weak and almost inaudible. When feeding him milk, I often feel like it's very difficult for him to eat. Feeding is so challenging. During the postpartum check-up at the hospital, they said he has cerebral palsy. I want to know the reason. What causes cerebral palsy in newborns?Doctor's answer:
Cerebral palsy. It usually refers to central motor disorders caused by non-progressive brain damage or brain developmental abnormalities due to various reasons from before birth to one month after birth. Clinically, it is characterized by abnormal posture and muscle tone, muscle weakness, involuntary movements, and ataxia. Prenatal factors are the most common. These include genetic and chromosomal diseases, congenital infections, brain developmental malformations or dysplasia, periventricular leukomalacia or basal ganglia damage caused by fetal brain ischemia and hypoxia, etc. Brain damage from the start of labor to one week after birth. This includes cerebral edema, neonatal shock, intracranial hemorrhage, sepsis or central nervous system infection, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, etc., which are prone to cause cerebral palsy.