P08: Disorders related to long gestation and high birth weight
P08.2: Post-term infant, not heavy for gestational age
The weeks of pregnancy of most commonly counted from the day of the last period. A pregnancy usually lasts about 40 weeks.
If a pregnancy lasts longer than 42 weeks, the child is sometimes no longer adequately supplied with nutrients. After the birth this can be seen from wrinkled, flaky skin or a lack of fatty padding, for example.
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