Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 7-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BABY WEIGHT AND CHANGES IN MATERNAL WEIGHT, TOTAL BODY WATER, PLASMA VOLUME, ELECTROLYTES AND PROTEINS AND URINARY OESTRIOL EXCRETION

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BABY WEIGHT AND CHANGES IN MATERNAL WEIGHT, TOTAL BODY WATER, PLASMA... Plasma volume, total body water, plasma protein concentration, serum sodium, potassium and chloride concentrations and urinary oestriol excretion were estimated at approximately 30, 34 and 38 weeks gestation in 20 primigravidae with high weight gain (0.64 kg. per week), 13 with normal weight gain (0.36–0.54 kg. per week) and 20 with low weight gain (0.27 kg. per week or less). The women with large plasma volumes and total body water volumes produced large babies. The greater the intravascular protein mass the greater was the weight of the baby. Neither urinary oestriol nor serum electrolyte levels were related to either maternal weight gain or weight of the baby. The higher the weight gain the greater was the total body water volume, the plasma volume and the incidence of oedema. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png BJOG : An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology Wiley

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BABY WEIGHT AND CHANGES IN MATERNAL WEIGHT, TOTAL BODY WATER, PLASMA VOLUME, ELECTROLYTES AND PROTEINS AND URINARY OESTRIOL EXCRETION

Download PDF
8 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/wiley/the-relationship-between-baby-weight-and-changes-in-maternal-weight-mSlx25vVHB

References (22)

Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
"Copyright © 1971 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company"
ISSN
1470-0328
eISSN
1471-0528
DOI
10.1111/j.1471-0528.1971.tb00240.x
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Plasma volume, total body water, plasma protein concentration, serum sodium, potassium and chloride concentrations and urinary oestriol excretion were estimated at approximately 30, 34 and 38 weeks gestation in 20 primigravidae with high weight gain (0.64 kg. per week), 13 with normal weight gain (0.36–0.54 kg. per week) and 20 with low weight gain (0.27 kg. per week or less). The women with large plasma volumes and total body water volumes produced large babies. The greater the intravascular protein mass the greater was the weight of the baby. Neither urinary oestriol nor serum electrolyte levels were related to either maternal weight gain or weight of the baby. The higher the weight gain the greater was the total body water volume, the plasma volume and the incidence of oedema.

Journal

BJOG : An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology – Wiley

Published: Feb 1, 1971

There are no references for this article.