The objective of this study was to examine the influence of anthropometric measurements of pregnant women, gestational weight gain, fundal height, and maternal factors, namely age, education, family income, parity along with maternal hemoglobin, on birth weight of neonates. A cross sectional study was performed in Khoy City in north west of Iran. Four hundred and fifty healthy pregnant women in...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of a policy of standard antenatal care which included plotting fundal height measurements on customised antenatal charts in the community. DESIGN Prospective, non-randomised, controlled, population-based study. POPULATION Two defined and separate referral areas from community to teaching hospital, with similar delivery rates and...

Objectives. To develop fundal height (FH) growth curve from normal singleton pregnancy based on last menstrual period (LMP) and/or ultrasound dating for women in the northern part of Thailand. Methods. A retrospective time-series study was conducted at four hospitals in the upper northern part of Thailand between January 2009 and March 2011. FH from 20 to 40 weeks was measured in centimeters. T...

Fundal height assessment is an inexpensive method for screening for fetal growth restriction. It has had mixed results in the literature, which is likely to be because of a wide variety of methods used. A standardised protocol of measurement by tape and plotting on customised charts is presented, which in routine practice has shown to be able to significantly increase detection rates, while red...