First-day weight loss predicts eventual weight nadir for breastfeeding newborns.
Published in Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition
To examine the relationship between high (≥5%) weight loss during the first 24 h after birth and eventual excess weight loss (EWL) of ≥10% of birth weight. Retrospective cohort study. Kaiser Permanente Northern California hospitals. 63 096 infants born at ≥36 weeks in 2009-2010, of whom 59 761 (94.5%) had a weight subsequent to birth weight measure...
