When women are pregnant, their food intake will increase, and some pregnant women will deliberately eat more because they are worried about insufficient nutrition, which may lead to obesity, pregnancy diabetes and hypertension, and increase the probability of macrosomia. So, how to diagnose macrosomia during pregnancy?
If women want to diagnose macrosomia during pregnancy, they need to undergo B-ultrasound examination, which can measure the fetal biparietal diameter, abdominal diameter, and femur length, and then calculate the fetal weight. If a baby's weight exceeds 4000 grams, they are considered a macrosomia.
If the fetal biparietal diameter is 10cm, and the abdominal diameter and femur length are 1.385, the vast majority of them are macrosomia. Nowadays, when women are pregnant, they will try to compensate for nutrition as much as possible, which can easily lead to macrosomia. The emergence rate of giant babies is constantly increasing, which is 2-3 times higher than 20 years ago.
If women want to avoid the appearance of macrosomia, they need to control their diet during pregnancy. Pregnant women should be aware that this is not about forcing everyone to go on a diet, but about paying more attention to their food choices and avoiding high calorie, high-fat, and high sugar foods. Pregnant women should pay attention to their weight gain. Generally, pregnant women who gain too much or too quickly during pregnancy are more likely to give birth to macrosomia and are also prone to pregnancy related diseases.
