Re: Healthy birth weight range for newborns

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At Sat, 6 Jul 2002, joy wrote: >
>Is the healthy range for newborn weight
>really so low?
>I am in my 39th week of pregnancy
>and judged in an ultrasound my baby already looks like he
>is already larger than 4.3kg
>(9.46 lbs).
>Most of the "experts"
>say that a healthy range for
>newborn weight is from 5 lbs to
>8.6 lbs, but so many of my friends
>had babies who were bigger and
>they were perfectly healthy and
>happy. Most of my friends who had
>smaller babies were premature by a
>month to 2 weeks which would of
>course account for the small size.
>When was the latest study/research on birth
>weights related to healthy babies done?
>Aren't more complications connected to low birth weight that heavier
>babies?
>
>--
>Looking forward to the challenge of bearing a large, healthy baby boy!
>-joy
>

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