Bob's Blog Log

Midwife student blog.

Sunday, June 11, 2006

Bucket Baby

This our clinic baby called "Bucket".
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Typical Scene


Relaxing on the beds in the prenatal area while on shift, doing homework and what not.
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Fundal Height

Measuring fundal height looks like.
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Chubby Baby



This is one of the chubbiest babies at the clinic. 4000 grams. Most of the babies are between 2000-3000 grams. It isn't unusual to see small babies as normal here, around 5 pounds. Moms are quiet small. Not only because of genetics but they don’t have money for good foods or try not to eat very much to restrict weight gain so they don’t have much to lose after. The fundal height (measuring from the pubic bone to top of uterus) usually corresponds in centimeters for well-nourished moms. For example a mom at 32 weeks measures 32 cm, at term of 40 measuring around 40 cm. our moms usually measure about 30-34 cm. hence the small babies.
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