Physicians and mothers have long known that newborns almost always lose some weight in the first few days after birth. But how much is normal? When should it stop and weight gain kick in? For ...

A new online tool -- called the Newborn Weight Tool, or Newt -- aims to help pediatricians assess whether newborns that are exclusively breastfed have lost too much weight in the first days of life.

University of California San Francisco is conducting a study involving use of its EHR to manage weight loss in the first dew days of a newborn’s life. The Healthy Start study aims to offer decision ...

Using weights obtained from more than 100,000 Northern California babies, a new study is the first to detail the weight loss patterns of exclusively breastfed newborns. The results show that some ...