Low Birth Weight Research Paper

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"Causes and Consequences of Low Birth weight"
When the human beings open up their eyes to the world they know nothing about the world. But they were already live with their own mother for nearly 10 months. Human birth is an very important aspect for their own future life that they are going to live in this world. Mothers are thinking about babies since pre pregnancy period. But birth of a baby is the best moment in every mothers' life. Therefore, every mother hopes a healthy baby for them. Birth weight of a baby is the most important factor which is considered at initially for babies after soon as they come to this world.
Birth weight is weighed as soon as they born. By considering the weight of the new born baby most of things can be assumed by doctors as well as nutritionists. Recommended birth weight of a normal healthy baby is 2500g. Babies who have weight below 2500g are considered as low birth weight babies. Also babies who have higher weight than 4kg are considered as high birth weight babies. There are many causes and consequences for low birth weights. It is mostly due to physical, mental and nutritional well being status of mother during pregnancy and pre pregnancy period.
There are main 3 situations with low birth weights. Infants who have their birth weight below 2500g are called as low birth weight. Infants who have their birth weight below 1500g are called as very low birth weight and infants who have their birth weight below 1000g are called as extremely low birth weight. But there are 20 million infants who have low birth weight every year and also considerably high rate of low birth weights are recorded in developing countries and it is 96%. Most of infants with low birth weights have risk of mortality and n...

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...ht of an infant it can be seen that the birth weight is a most important factor for their life. As nutrition students we have to provide correct information to pregnant mothers to overcome this huge problem. Women who are expecting for pregnancy must take folate supplement before 2 months when they get pregnant. Also pregnant mother need high content of iron as well as calcium as micro nutrients. Therefore they will have to consume some more green leafy vegetables, fruits as well as milk which is a rich source of calcium.
And also pregnant mothers must be advised to go to the medical clinics which are helpful for the growth of infant since initial month. By participating for those kind of clinics pregnant mothers can take iron, folate and vitamin C supplements freely. Also pregnant mothers must live happily during pregnancy period to avoid mental stress.

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