post-term

Most often, a post-term baby is born in good health.

In most cases, there is no obvious cause of a post-term pregnancy.

Perhaps the most important part of managing post-term pregnancy is involving the woman and her partner.

But a very small number of post-term pregnancies are linked to stillbirth and infant death.

Many doctors and nurse-midwives want to lower risks for the post-term baby by delivering by or before 42 weeks.

How is a post-term pregnancy handled?

Psychological treatment in jail would be the second portion of his plan, with post-term confinement only for those who refused treatment or failed to improve.

Learn about possible complications including preterm birth, post-term birth, gestational diabetes, and more in this section.

Even among women who are sure of their dates the incidence of post-term pregnancy can be halved if an early ultrasound scan is performed.

Some post-term pregnancies - those lasting more than 42 weeks - are not truly post-term.

Focusing Attention Although the study will not provide answers for several years, it is focusing obstetricians' attention on the problems of post-term pregnancies.

Since many women are now expressing a preference for minimal interference in childbirth the most acceptable management of post-term pregnancy seems to be increased fetal surveillance.

Causes include post-term pregnancy, placental insufficiency, and NSAID use by the mother.

The causes of post-term births are unknown, but post-mature births are more likely when the mother has experienced a previous post-mature birth.

For twins, the prospective risk of fetal death appears to be equivalent to that of post-term singletons at approximately 37 to 38 weeks' gestation [7,8].

"If I try to induce labor in everyone who is post-term, I will end up doing an awful lot of Caesareans," Dr. Rosen said.

Then it's a matter of finding a compromise delivery date that would be best for both babies, "so that one didn't go post-term and the other preterm," Kuller says.

Health conditions that may warrant induced labour or C-sections include gestational or chronic hypertension, preeclampsia, eclampsia, diabetes, premature rupture of membranes, severe fetal growth restriction, and post-term pregnancy.

Fatimah bint Asad, the wife of Abu Talib ibn 'Abd al-Muttalib, pregnant with Ali, completed her pregnancy term of 270 days but had not yet been induced into labor to give birth to the post-term baby.

We did not observe (nor were we able to refute) these relations, though we did observe a negative albeit small association between maternal sport fish consumption and birth size among post-term infants, which disappeared after controlling for other determinants of fetal growth as measured by birth size.

Emperor Wu was ecstatic in having a child at such an advanced age (62 years old), and because Consort Zhao purportedly had a post-term pregnancy that lasted 14 months long - same as the mythical Emperor Yao - he named Consort Zhao's palace gate "Gate of Yao's mother".