Complications of Childbirth

Question 1

Preterm

Answer 1

Infants born before the completion of 37 weeks gestation

Question 2

Small-for-date infants

Answer 2

Infants whose birth weight is less than 90% of babies of the same gestational age, as a result of slow fetal growth. They weight less than 5 1/2 pounds (2,500 grams).

Question 3

Factors affecting low-birth-weight baby:

Answer 3

1. Demographic and socioeconomic
2. Medical factors predating the pregnancy or associated with pregnancy
3. Prenatal behavioral and environmental factors