Postmaturity syndrome

**Definition:** Post-term infant with signs of dysmaturity including dry peeling wrinkled skin, yellow staining of the skin, long stained fingernails, abundant scalp hair, thin growth retarded body with long thin limbs and hyperalert behaviours.

**Long definition:** These are post-term infants with signs of dysmaturity. These infants are the consequence of chronic placental insufficiency and often have the following physical findings: long fingernails often stained by meconium, abundant scalp hair, wrinkled and or peeling skin, hyperalert facies little or no vernix, long, thin growth retarded body with long thin limbs.

**Exclusions:** - Post-term newborn