Classification of intrauterine growth retardation.

0 NLY WITHIN the last 25 years has the historical observation (survival is less likely in babies born too small) evolved into the concept of a poorer prognosis for babies with impaired growth. In the late 17th and 18th centuries, the most renowned obstetricians such as Mauriceau in France and Snellie in England estimated birth weights as high as 15 to 16 lb. A review of this historical literature by Cone’ notes that weights and measures were...