Impact of in-hospital birth weight loss on short and medium term breastfeeding outcomes

Abstract Background The definition for lower limit of safe birthweight loss among exclusively breastfed neonates is arbitrary. Despite this, in cases of great in-hospital weight loss, breastfeeding adequacy is immediately questioned. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between weig...

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Main Authors: Sergio Verd, Diego de Sotto, Consuelo Fernández, Antonio Gutiérrez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-07-01
Series:International Breastfeeding Journal
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13006-018-0169-6