Patient's question:
I found out that my stomach was big after getting pregnant, and it was very close to the delivery period. The doctor recommended a cesarean section because it was a macrosomia. What does macrosomia mean?Doctor's answer:
Infants with the characteristics of "neurotic adults" are closely related to pregnant women, with most cases attributed to excessive nutritional supplementation during pregnancy. In medicine, overweight full-term newborns are referred to as "large for gestational age" (LGA) infants. According to China's obstetric definitions, newborns weighing 4,000 grams or more within the first hour after birth can be classified as LGA infants. In the 1980s, LGA infants accounted for only about 3% of births. In recent years, with the rapid development of the economy and the improvement of people's material living standards, the average birth weight of newborns has begun to increase, and the incidence of LGA infants has also risen.