Gestational Assessment


Even as technology progresses at a blinding speed, the skilled examiner remains the most valuable segment of the medical repertoire in determining gestational age of a newborn.

Gestational Assessment

Gestational age of a fetus or of a newborn can be assessed currently by three different methods: the mother's menstrual history, prenatal ultrasonography and the postnatal maturational examination. An accurate menstrual history, when obtainable, remains the best measure of gestational age, but depends upon normal maternal physiology and an accurate and reliable history.

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