Friday, November 1, 2013

Term pregnancy

The ACOG had replaced the phrase 'Term pregnancy ' with 4 categories according to the weeks of pregnancy ( 37-42) as the fetal outcome differs from a category to another. These categories are:

Early term: from 37 weeks to 38 weeks, 6 days
Full term: from 39 weeks to 40 weeks, 6days
Late term: from 41 weeks to 41weeks, 6days
Post term : 42 weeks and more

( for detailed readings Medscape 22-10-2013)