A record birth: 5 kg and 250 grams at birth. This is the weight recorded by Martina Orrù, a 38-week-old newborn in the gynecology department of San Martino Hospital in Oristano. This is a threshold that is rarely recorded in the delivery room, especially if the birth occurs prematurely.
A joy for Matteo Orrù and Federica Orrù of Mogoro, parents of two boys, both born with significant birth weights. "This weight surprised us too," they said. "We expected it to be a high weight. At first, during the birth, we were even worried, but then the medical directors and all the staff in the department reassured and reassured us, as well as providing truly extraordinary care ."
For the department at Oristano hospital, this is "a record weight for a 38-week-old baby and for a mother who developed diabetes during pregnancy, but had good control," reports Dr. Francesca Campus, head of the gynecology and obstetrics unit at San Martino. "It's certainly a great satisfaction for the department. The mother developed diabetes during pregnancy, but the patient was consistently monitored with an appropriate diet and, recently, even with some insulin . At the thirty-eighth week, as per guidelines, we medically induced labor."
A cesarean section was necessary, as assessed yesterday by Dr. Giulia Cattani, a resident physician at the University of Sassari, and Dr. Laura Urrai, the gynecologist on call. "It was a fair and appropriate decision because, surprisingly, the baby's weight was 5.25 kg, compared to an estimated 4.8 kg at the end of the pregnancy . A macrosomic fetus, weighing more than 4.5 kg, is generally associated with uncontrolled diabetes," warns Campus.
(Unioneonline)
