Question
Is there a relationship between cerebral palsy and fetal macrosomia?
Answer
There is no direct relationship between cerebral palsy and fetal macrosomia. Cerebral palsy is a disease that causes motor development issues, with numerous causes including genetic and chromosomal disorders, congenital infections, malformations or developmental abnormalities of the brain, and fetal brain ischemia-hypoxia leading to white matter softening around the ventricles or damage to the basal ganglia. Therefore, the occurrence of cerebral palsy does not depend on the size of the fetus. Parents should pay special attention to the risk of suffocation in infants with cerebral palsy when lying on their backs and should not allow children to lie face down alone without supervision.