Answer:
A. Prenatal factors
Explanation:
In medicine, the term prenatal factors refer to those conditions that take place during pregnancy and that affect birth and conditions of the newborn.
Some of these factors are the age of the mother, consumption of alcohol or drugs during pregnancy, stress related situations during pregnancy.
In this example, we have a mother who is 13 years-old who received occasional prenatal care and has a history of excessive alcohol consumption. The newborn has low-weight (actually, one of the risks of alcohol consumption during pregnancy is low-weight newborns). Therefore, this child has been influenced by the situations that took place during pregnancy and therefore by Prenatal factors.
Answer:
A. Prenatal factors
Explanation:
Prenatal factors are factors that expose the neonate to complications during pregnancy, and which have short-term and long-term health consequences on the neonate. An example of prenatal factors that occurs during pregnancy before birth are maternal factors. Maternal factors have to do with the mother of the child. Maternal factors could include the nutritional state of the mother during birth, alcoholism, substance abuse etc.
Alcohol has been identified to have a negative effect on the growth and development of the cells of the neonate during pregnancy.
The growth and development of the low-birth-weight neonate, whose mother has a history of excessive alcohol consumption, has been influenced by prenatal factors such as the alcohol imbibed by the mother.
