Post-term and low birth weight:
Post-term: Baby born after 42 weeks of gestation. Post-mature : Baby born after 40 weeks gestation by 7 days or more. Etiology: Unknown (large-size parent, multi-gravity, or diabetic mother ). Association with Anencephaly due to defect pituitary adrenal axis or with trisomies. Cinical manifestation: *Mostly increase the birth weight with normal length and head for gestational age. *Exception syndromes and degenerative changes in the placenta. *small for gestational age. 1st stage: ➤ Pale wrinkled dry skin with absent lanugo hairs, and long nails. ➤ decrease subcutaneous fat. ➤ open-eyed baby. 2nd stage: with the above: ➤ meconium stain skin. ➤perinatal depression. 3rd stage: with the above: ...