Baby'S Weight; Child'S Growth Curve - bewell connect MyBabyScale Manual De Instrucciones

2.1. BABY'S WEIGHT

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A baby grows the most in its first year, gaining around 13 lb / 6
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kg in the first 12 months then just 6 lb / 3 kg the following year.
However, bear in mind that a baby grows in stages, with pauses,
and that there are great height and weight variations between in-
dividual children
Reference 1:
WHO. Child Growth Standard. Weight-for-age charts.
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- Boys z-scores: Birth to 2 years. Available on http://www.who.int/childgrowth/stan-
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dards/cht_wfa_boys_z_0_2.pdf. (Last visited Aug 31st, 2016)
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- Girls z-scores: Birth to 2 years. Available on http://www.who.int/childgrowth/stan-
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dards/cht_wfa_girls_z_0_2.pdf (last visited Aug 31st, 2016)

2.2. CHILD'S GROWTH CURVE

See diagrams pages 4-7.
Regularly monitoring your child's growth makes it possible to
create graphs (Height and weight, CF 4. APP). A baby loses weight
in the three or four days following birth. This is a normal pheno-
menon. Once the baby has returned to its birth weight, growth
should continue regularly
Reference 2:
Maisels MJ, Gifford K. Breast feeding, weight loss and jaundice. J Pedia-
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Marchini G, Stock S. Thirst and vasopressin secretion counteract dehydration in
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Marchini G, Fried G, Ostlund E, et al. Plasma leptin in infants: relations to birth weight
and weight loss. Pediatrics1998;101:429–32.
Bishop N, King F, Lucas A. Linear growth in the early neonatal period. Arch Dis Child
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1990;65:708–10
WHO - Child Growth Standard. Weight-for-age. Expanded tables for constructing
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national health cards:
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- Boys z-scores. Available on http://www.who.int/childgrowth/standards/wfa_
boys_z_exp.txt (Last visited Sept 1st, 2016)
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