When assessing physical maturity for a newborn's gestational age assessment, the nurse would determine lanugo and breast tissue.
The nurse have to pick out maternal pregravid weight problems as a hazard factor for the development of LGA newborns. The other hazard elements for the development of LGA newborns consist of fetal publicity to high estrogen, extra weight attain for the duration of pregnancy, gestational diabetes and excessive maternal delivery weight.
The most accurate estimation of gestational age is accomplished by thinking about prenatal date (ie, closing menstrual length [LMP] and early ultrasound [if available]) in combination with bodily and neurologic features of the newborn.
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