Infants are generally expected to double their birth weight by five months and triple it by 12 months.

Healthy preterm infants without any clinical problems were studied longitudinally. An initial study was performed after full enteral feeding had been achieved and the infant's clinical condition ...

You should be steadily increasing your caloric intake during pregnancy — by your third trimester, you should consume about ...

Adding cereal to a baby's bottle is a habit that's been around for a long time to help introduce solid foods while also supplementing a mom's breast milk. But this practice can cause babies to pack on ...

In addition to the breastfeeding assessment tools described here, other parameters that must also be assessed by health care professionals to assure that adequate milk transfer is occurring include: 1 ...

A UNC Greensboro (UNCG) study following 299 women and their infants from pregnancy to toddlerhood examined mul ple psychological, biological, and social factors in the context of infants' rapid weight ...

Many infants in Sweden are given milk cereal drinks, ready-to-mix liquid drink complements to breast milk, after six months of age. New research in Acta Paediatrica found evidence that these products ...