there are interesting results about US and weight estimation looking at medline or pubmed. The german author Jahn A did some very interesting cross-cultural reseach on this topic and you find several publications in english surching in medline or pubmed. Clarissa
> hmm, the difficulties of trusting ultrasound for baby weights... > I hear many midwives recount stories of the inaccuracies of this practice, & the > less-than-ideal outcomes that follow. Everyone seems to have a story - mine is about the > woman carrying twins, who at 37 weeks was told by her OB that she needed a US to 'check the > babies'. US result came back saying that there was over a kilo discrepancy in the weights > of the babies, twin-to-twin transfusion was diagnosed, so she was induced (at 37 weeks). Her > beautiful babies were 7lb & 7lb 4oz, a 4oz difference. > Does anybody have evidence that US *is* a 'reliable' tool for > diagnosing/estimating baby weights? Why are we using/trusting this tool if all we keep > hearing about are stories like these? How many stories are out there regarding US weight > diagnosis being accurate? > Jennifairy > > Mary Murphy wrote: > >>I realise that some U/S weights are close, but recently had a tall, well proportioned primip >> woman who was told her baby was 4.8kg. when she was induced later for PROM this image of the >> big baby certainly affected her. she later had a c/s of a 3.6kg baby. Now she has a scarred >> uterus and her reproductive future is influenced by this as she is 41 & wants to have >> another baby quickly. Now she has to worry about the VBAC research which says it would be >> safer to wait 2 yrs, which she can't. One can never say that she would not otherwise have >> had a C/S, but one has to wonder. MM >>-- >>This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. >>Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe. >> >> > -- > This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. > Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe. [EMAIL PROTECTED] oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo in Berlin: Clarissa Schwarz Markgrafenstr. 5 D-10969 Berlin Tel: +49 (0)30-251 86 44 oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo in Magdeburg: Clarissa Schwarz, MPH ISMHE Institute of Social Medicine and Health Economics Institut f�r Sozialmedizin und Gesundheits�konomie Medizinische Fakult�t, Otto-von-Guericke Universit�t Magdeburg Leipziger Str. 44 D-39120 Magdeburg Tel: +49 (0)391 - 532 80 57 -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
