What is meant by the term "large fruit"?
A large fetus is diagnosed a few weeks before the pregnant woman is due to give birth. In such cases, the baby has a height of more than 54 cm, and its weight is more than 4 kg.
According to statistics, as a result of approximately 10% of all pregnancies, large babies appear. Doctors associate such a phenomenon, first of all, with the improvement of living and working conditions, full nutrition of expectant mothers.
How to give birth, ate when a large fetus is diagnosed?
As a rule, the pregnant woman herself can not decide how the delivery will be carried out. In such cases, the decision is made exclusively by doctors.
Thus, natural childbirth with a large fetus can be carried out only in cases when the infant is correctly located in the uterus and has a head presentation. This also takes into account the anatomical features of the pelvis of a pregnant woman. Its dimensions must fully correspond to the size of the baby's head.
When deciding whether to perform cesarean with a large fetus, or deliveries in the classical way, doctors take into account the fact,
Thus, it must be said that when deciding on the method of delivery, doctors, first of all, pay attention to the correspondence of the size of the baby's head to the entrance to the small pelvis.