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Measuring Newborns’ Weight Loss With Electronic Health Records to Give Babies a Healthy Start

A study at UCSF is using electronic health records to guide weight loss management for newborns and to help make decisions about whether supplemental feeding or other interventions might be warranted. read more

What's the average height and weight for babies and toddlers – and does it actually mean anything?

Every child grows differently – It's totally normal for kids to be bigger or smaller than others at the same age. What's more important is that they grow steadily over time. Growth charts are just a ... read more

Newborns often take weeks to return to birth weight

(Reuters Health) - - Even though doctors often tell parents that newborns will regain weight lost after birth within a week or two, many infants take much longer to achieve this milestone, a U.S. read more

Is metabolism set from birth? One lab is studying newborns to find out.

BATON ROUGE, La. — Tiny babies as young as two weeks old are shepherded into the Pennington Biomedical Research Center's lab in strollers and car-seat carriers. Some cry, some can't stop wiggling, and ... read more