Placental Anthropometric Features: Maternal and Neonate Characteristics in North Central Nigeria

Table 1

Showing some neonate and maternal features.

Feature/characteristic	Number 300 (%)
(A) Birth weight (g)
<2,500	36 (12)
2500–4000	243 (81)
>4000	21 ()
(B) Maternal age (yrs)
<20	63 (21)
≥35	33 (11)
20–35	204 (68)
(C) Ethnicity (race)
Negroid	298 (99)
Yoruba	216 (72)
Igbo	24 (8)
Hausa/Fulani	45 (15)
Other	15 (5)
(D) Mothers education
Graduate	27 (9)
Secondary school	69 (23)
Primary school	36 (12)
Illiterate	168 (56)
(E) Parity
Nulliparous	48 (16)
>1 previous birth	222 (74)
1 previous birth	30 (10)
Multiparous	252 (84)
(F) Gestational age at birth
38 wks (<40 wks) (preterm)	72 (24)
(40 wks TERM)	213 (71)
42 wks (>40 wks) postdate	15 (5)
(G) Route of delivery
ND (normal delivery)/SVD (spontaneous vaginal delivery)	207 (69)
Caesarean section (including transverse lie)	72 (24)
(H) Others
(Manual-breech assisted manipulation)	3 (1)
Vacuum extraction	3 (1)
Forceps extraction	15 (5)