Some children are born with an excessive weight or size. Why children can be born, and the main risks for mother and child?

Babies are considered of great weight, is more than 4.5 kg or macrosomic name literally means “large body”. While the average weight of about 3.4 kg baby.

Great child becomes very difficult to diagnose as it is still in the womb, so it will not be known until after the birth.

Usually a child that created the weight would be predicted by ultrasound. But it is not accurately measured because there is a 10-15 per cent difference between the weight predicted by ultrasound, the actual weight babies.

One of the most influential factors in the case of children is a major genetic factors. Except for the non-monitored blood sugar levels during pregnancy as gestational diabetes or had diabetes mellitus.

Another factor is the increased risk of obesity in pregnant women and also in the mother during pregnancy weight gain is too large.

Gender of the child conceived may also play a role. Baby boys more than girls have a lot of weight.

If you have ever given birth weight children with large, there is a trend berkutnya pregnancy is a big baby.

But if a woman is a risk factor, do not panic. Because there are several other factors that are not described here, the weight of babies get conceived.

The risk that a child with a weight process will affect the delivery, including:

1 There is the possibility of maternal perineal tears
2 more blood loss, or damage to the collar bone (tail bone)
3 There is also a small chance that your child has distosia shoulder when the baby’s shoulders this morning to the head.

If the child has distosia shoulders, let your collar bone is broken and nerve damage in his shoulder and arm during birth. This nerve damage occurred between 4-16 percent of the cases distosia shoulder.

It is therefore important that women with the necessary attention to the child’s weight, such as exercising regularly and call the idea that he should eat two. A diligent in monitoring their blood sugar during pregnancy, even if it is not diabetes.