What does that mean? I'm still worried! A. If your baby is "following the curve" of the growth chart, she's paralleling one of the percentile lines on the chart, and the odds are good that her ...

If a premature baby is born very small and then has feeding problems he may well fall off the growth charts for a time. This faster physical growth for premature babies is known as 'catch-up' growth ...

Parents are a competitive bunch. So when the pediatrician whips out a growth chart and ranks baby's height and weight in percentiles, it's easy to wonder if something's wrong. But growth ...

Promoting growth is an important aspect of the management of preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit. However, this proves to be a difficult challenge. Most preterm infants have ...

head growth and length, at eight weeks and again at 12 months, compared with premature babies who were only breastfed. The average weight of babies in the study was 2.8lb (1.3kg) at birth ...