Large-for-gestational-age (lga) newborn


  • A newborn who weighs more than 90% of newborns of the same gestational age at birth (above the 90th percentile) is considered large for gestational age.

    • Newborns may be large because the parents are large or because the mother has diabetes or is obese.
    • Doctors take measurements of the mother

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