What is the most common cause of macrosomia?

What is the most common cause of macrosomia?

Maternal age. Fetal macrosomia is more likely to be a result of maternal diabetes, obesity or weight gain during pregnancy than other causes. If these risk factors aren’t present and fetal macrosomia is suspected, it’s possible that your baby might have a rare medical condition that affects fetal growth.

What causes fetal macrosomia?

Fetal macrosomia is a condition in which your fetus is larger than average (between 4,000 grams [8 pounds, 13 ounces] and 4,500 grams [9 pounds, 15 ounces]). There are many causes, including diabetes or obesity in the birth parent.

Can macrosomia be treated?

Objective: Treatment of fetal macrosomia presents challenges to practitioners because a potential outcome of shoulder dystocia with permanent brachial plexus injury is costly both to families and to society. Practitioner options include labor induction, elective cesarean delivery, or expectant treatment.

Is a big baby a healthy baby?

Most big babies are born healthy. Since many large babies are born to mothers with diabetes, some babies will need help regulating their blood sugar after they’re born. They may also need help with their breathing. Jaundice is common in newborn babies and especially in babies of mothers with diabetes.

How is fetal macrosomia treated?

Management strategies for suspected fetal macrosomia include elective cesarean section and early induction of labor.

Can macrosomia cause birth defects?

Births involving fetal macrosomia are also at risk of birth defects and injuries, like a fractured clavicle or damage to the nerves of the brachial plexus. In fact, these injuries are the most common fetal injuries associated with macrosomia.

Is macrosomia same as large for gestational age?

Whereas large for gestational age relates to a baby’s size before birth, macrosomia is usually used to describe babies following birth who are larger than the 90th or 95th percentile on an infant growth chart or who weigh 4kg or more at birth.

How do you treat a Macrosomic baby?

Abstract. Objective: Treatment of fetal macrosomia presents challenges to practitioners because a potential outcome of shoulder dystocia with permanent brachial plexus injury is costly both to families and to society. Practitioner options include labor induction, elective cesarean delivery, or expectant treatment.

Can I deliver a big baby naturally?

Can I vaginally deliver a big baby? Many women are able to vaginally deliver a big baby. Even women who we perceive as “small” have very adequate space in their pelvis to fit a baby. Your doctor or midwife can determine your pelvic space during a vaginal exam in the very beginning of your pregnancy.

Is macrosomia treatable?

Macrosomia is related to perinatal complications and the term fetus increases its body mass approximately 150-200g per week. Early term or 39-week induction of labor can reduce rates of macrosomia compared with expectant management, and therefore may decrease the complications of macrosomia.