Birth times "a few pounds a few two", is it a hint at the level of the baby's IQ? Parents need to understand why

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After the baby is born, the doctor will usually give him a simple wipe and then weigh him.

If parents hear that their baby's weight is average, they will put their minds at ease, indicating that the baby is at least healthy. But if the baby is too low or overweight, the family will ask worriedly, is this okay?

Children who are thin or fat will cause family concerns. Because not only is it about health, but some people will think that it affects the child's IQ.

Is this really the case?

One: Why weigh your baby in the first place?

After every baby is born, the doctor will weigh him almost immediately and then record it. Why?

Here are some reasons for mom and dad to know.

Check your baby's health status

In general, the normal weight of the baby at birth ranges from 5-8 pounds.

If it is less than 5 pounds, it is thin and small, and if it is higher than 8 pounds, it is "huge". These two situations need to be paid attention to, and the doctor will follow up on the baby's health status to see if there is any abnormality.

When I was about to give birth, the baby born to the mother next to the bed was only more than 4 pounds, and the doctor suggested that the baby stay in the incubator for a few days to ensure her health.

The baby is given a record of weight as soon as he is born, in fact, it is also the doctor and the family to check his health status in order to make corresponding measures to ensure that the baby can spend the time after birth healthily.

Improve recognizability

When babies are born, they are actually not very recognizable.

If you put your baby, which has just been born a few hours ago, into a group of newborns, I think it is indeed a challenge for you to recognize your baby from it.

However, the "few pounds and a few pairs" when each baby is born is not much the same, which is convenient for mothers and families to identify their own babies according to their weight.

Especially when several babies are born in the delivery room, the doctor records the weight for the first time and records it on the baby's bracelet. In this way, even if you can't tell which one your baby is, you can tell it by looking at the information on the bracelet.

Facilitates subsequent monitoring of growth records

From birth to the age of 6, parents will take him to a physical examination regularly as required.

For each physical examination, the doctor will check the growth record table to see if the baby's height and weight are within the normal range. If you deviate from the normal value, the doctor will give appropriate advice to let parents help the baby grow up healthily.

It can be said that the height and weight of the baby's newborn is the "starting point" of his long life. When he grows up, he can take out the medical examination sheet to review his growth process, and listen to us talk about his childhood, which is also a good memory.

Two: The birth time "a few pounds and a few two" is a hint at the level of the baby's IQ?

Some parents are more concerned about their children's weight, and feel that the heavier they are, the smarter they are. Those children with average weight are brain-poor and certainly have a low IQ.

Is this really the case?

In fact, there is no scientific basis for this.

Parenting Encyclopedia mentions that the child's brain is priority development throughout the fetal period. So when we look at newborn babies, they are almost all "big heads", and the proportion of heads accounts for a quarter of the body.

The child is not as heavy as possible, but within the normal weight range, it means that he is healthy.

Below normal, the mother may be malnourished during pregnancy. If the fetus is too large, it will affect the production, resulting in the mother having to use a caesarean section to give birth to the baby.

Therefore, as long as the baby is born healthy and the weight is within the normal range, we can rest assured.

Three: What factors are related to the height and weight of the child at birth?

During my pregnancy, I asked the doctor what factors the height and weight of the child at birth would be related to.

The doctor explained that it is mainly related to the following points, parents can understand.

●Parents' height and weight

A child's height is largely affected by genetic factors. Generally speaking. A child with tall parents, when he is born, will also be a little longer in height, and the weight may be slightly heavier.

I have a friend who is 167 herself and 185 for her husband. When the child is born, it weighs nearly 8 pounds and is 57 cm tall. She joked with us that her baby won at the "starting line" as soon as she was born.

●Diet during pregnancy

After many mothers become pregnant, their families think of ways to supplement her nutrition, afraid that the child's nutrition will not keep up.

But in fact, as long as the pregnant mother is nutritionally balanced, she can eat a little more than usual. Pregnant mothers really don't eat as much as possible, because no matter how heavy the child is, the birth is only a few pounds, and the rest of the excess nutrition has grown into the flesh of the mother.

An overweight fetus is not conducive to mother childbirth. If the fetus is a huge baby, the mother will have to consider abandoning the vaginal birth in favor of caesarean section.

Pregnant mothers eat too fat, easy to grow stretch marks, and may also have high blood sugar.

If the pregnant mother diets during pregnancy in order to maintain her figure, it may lead to the baby's nutrition not keeping up, underweight, and backward development.

Therefore, pregnant mothers should pay more attention to diet during the entire pregnancy. Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, achieve balanced nutrition, neither supplements nor diets, in order to ensure that the baby is in a healthy weight range.

About the few pounds and a few pounds when the child was born, Cuckoo's mother talked about this.

I don't know what happened to your child when he was born?

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