Jacinta is newly pregnant when she loses her job and her husband asks for a divorce. Within several months, she is living on her
own and struggling to make ends meet; often she finds herself going to bed hungry because she did not have enough money left over from paying rent to buy groceries. What can you predict about Jacinta’s baby, when it is born?
Based on the scenario being described it can be said that the a reasonable prediction in this scenario would be that the baby will have a low birth weight. This is because due to the mother struggling and not eating correctly, she therefore lack of sufficient nutrients in the body. Since the mother needs to eat healthy and sufficiently to make sure that the baby is well nutritioned, then it is safe to say that the baby will be malnutritioned as well and have a low birth weight.
