After the baby is born, the doctor will cut off the baby's umbilical cord, which is also the separation between the mother and the baby and dry the body. The next two very important things are to "press footprints" and "weight" the baby, but why do you "weight" the newborn baby?
Doctors will hold the baby and tell the mother what the child’s weight is, and even say that within the normal range, parents will be very happy. When the child’s weight is too low, parents will be unhappy. Some parents even think that the higher the child’s weight, the higher the standard of health, which indirectly means that the baby is smarter. So from a scientific point of view, is it true?
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Newbie mother’s doubts: What is the meaning of how many pounds a baby?
Xiao Wang is a new mother. During her pregnancy, her mother-in-law kept asking her to eat more, saying that only in this way can the child develop better, the weight will be higher, and the baby will be smarter after birth.
But when I was giving birth, Xiao Wang gave birth to a daughter of 6 pounds and 6 ounces. After I was born, the nurse in the delivery room reported her daughter's weight very seriously. At the same time, another nurse had been recording some relevant data. At this time, Xiao Wang was a little curious, why did the nurse perform this series of operations? Is it really just like the mother-in-law said that how many pounds represent the child’s IQ?
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1 When birth, it is reported "how many pounds" to imply the baby's IQ? Parents need to understand the reasons
In the traditional perception of the older generation, big fat grandsons and big fat granddaughters are all symbols of being smart and easy to support, so they often say that the heavier the baby is when he is born, the smarter the child will be in the future.
In fact, this statement has no scientific basis at all.
A British research document conducted a follow-up survey of 3,900 babies born in 1946 and found that the weight born is proportional to the child's IQ. The heavier the weight a child is born, the smarter heavier he grows up and the more successful his career. Some low-level cognitive functions have been affected, but this is not the case.
Because this study was conducted in 1946, the living conditions at that time were relatively limited and the lack of supplies, the relevant research was not accurate.
Nowadays, many people think that the weight of a baby at birth will affect the baby's IQ, in fact, this understanding is completely wrong. According to research by biologists, a child's IQ is mainly affected by the parents' genetic gene . It can be said that the proportion of heredity accounts for 60% to 70%.
The main one is affected by X chromosome , which means that the child's IQ will be more affected by the mother. However, children weighing more than 8 kilograms at birth have a certain threat to childbirth and will not have much impact on future development. Moreover, children with large weight have a larger proportion of brains. Does that mean that children with 8 kilograms are smarter?
This situation can only indicate that the child's brain is developing normally, there are no deformities, and there are no incompleteness. Only through later nutritional supplements and environmental guidance, the gap in development level will gradually widen, which has no direct relationship with the weight at birth.
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What factors are related to the height and weight of a child when he was born?
first birth age
If the expectant mother's first child is under 30 years old, then the weight at birth increases with the age of the pregnant mother. If the first baby of the expectant mother is over 31 years old, then the baby's weight will decrease as the pregnant woman ages.
growth week
The fetus's time in the mother is too long or too short, which will affect the weight of the newborn at birth. For example, when pregnant for menstruation is 35 weeks, newborns will experience a weekly increase and a significant increase.From 0 weeks of pregnancy to 43 weeks of pregnancy, your weight will gradually increase slowly, and your weight will decrease until 44 weeks of pregnancy.
Genetic
Genetic genes are the main factor that determines the baby's weight. If the whole family members are fat, as the saying goes, the dragon gives birth to dragon and phoenix gives birth to phoenixes. The inheritance rules will lead to a larger weight when the baby is born.
