Most healthy full term babies lose somewhere between 5 to 7 percent of their birth weight in the first 3 to 5 days of life and in many cases will begin to gain weight around day 5 to 7 of life. Most healthy FT infants will reach their birth weight somewhere between the 2nd to 3rd week of life. During the first two weeks of life, special attention is focused on the baby’s weight. Directly after birth the infant is weighed and assessed on a daily basis while in the nursery. After discharge, the pediatric healthcare provider will re-weigh the infant as an outpatient at around the 5th to 7 day of life and once again at 2 weeks of age. As a general rule, any loss greater than 10% of birth weight is concerning and requires a full feeding evaluation, as well as consideration for formula supplementation. The Baby Weight Gain Calculater app is a simple app that assists the health care professional in making a fast and accurate calculation of an infant’s day to day weight loss displayed as a percentage of birth weight loss. Baby Weight Gain Calculater draws the curve of the child’s weight on the graph, from birth to the first months of life, comparing it with the benchmarks suggested by the World Health Organization. In this period, the weight is the most important parameter to monitor the health and proper feeding of the newborn. The graph is of simple and immediate comprehension, also because the scale of magnitudes is changed automatically (as well as manually) depending on the infant’s age. Dynamics of a Baby Weight Gain Calculater indexes and of a head circumference of your baby compare to average data of babies with the same weight at a birth on the nomogram of physical development . Do not worry, if development indexes of your baby do not coincide exactly with curves on charts - many deviations can be within the range (see Growth variants at infancy). If you can not find a natural explanation to an insufficient increase in gain weight of your baby, address to this Baby Weight Gain Calculater app less
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