Conversely, less heavy infants born to mothers with short stature might have been able to deliver normally.
Fourth, cephalohematoma, a risk factor for hyperbilirubinemia, might be increased, considering the high percentage of vaginal deliveries and heavy infants (17.8 % had birth weight >4000 g) [ 20, 24].
Baughcum and colleagues[ 11], in the study described above, reported that mothers had strong beliefs that heavy infants were desirable as weight was the best marker of health and successful parenting.
Increased maternal body mass index (BMI) confers an elevated risk of delivering a heavier infant[ 6], while increasing maternal weight gain during pregnancy has been shown to be independently related to increasing infant birth weight[ 6, 7].
7 8 9 Increased maternal body mass index confers an elevated risk of delivering a heavier infant, 10 and evidence supports a strong associations between excessive weight gain and an increased birth weight.
Those who were born weighing 3.3 to 5.5 pounds had a 90percentt increased risk of attention disorder, and those with birth weights of 5.5 to 5.7 pounds were one and a half times as likely as heavier infants to develop the illness.
Conversely, a longer duration of feeding of formula was associated with heavier infants (p < 0.05).
In heavier infants, greater patient comfort and better control of the fracture can be achieved by using Hamilton-Russell skin traction.
The results also indicate that mothers with formal schooling have heavier infants compared to those without formal schooling, holding other factors constant.
The relationship between standardized birth weight and neonatal mortality is nonlinear; mortality is high at low z-score birth weights, drops precipitously with increasing z-score birth weight, and begins to flatten for heavier infants.
