Association between Fetal and Mother weight in the Third Trimester by using Ultrasounography

Abstract

Excessive pregnancy weight gain appears to increase birth weight and the offspring’s risk for obesity later in life. However, this relationship may be confounded by genetic and other shared. A total of 50 patients were examined in a period of one year from October 2014 to October 2015 all patients were examined in supine transverse and longitudinal or saggital scan. All patients were examined in ultrasound department of Shaam Hospital in Ras Al Khaima in United Arab Emirates . The mothers were normal and/or diabetics, data collected between 28 weeks of pregnancy to full term gestation .The result was obtained after collecting and analyzing the data collection sheet using the Computer program of Statistical Package for Social Sciences SPSS. The result showed the mean of Frequent age group is 31.5 (40%), the 70% of mothers was diabetic, also the result showed that 90% of the ceses were diabetics ,and the relation between mother’s weight and fetal weight shown by equation Y=3.0106+1248.8 and Rz =0.0258 .