California-Developed Online Tool Helps Pediatricians Evaluate Newborn Weight Loss
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. The tool -- which was created using a sample of hourly birth weights from more than 100,000 breastfed newborns at Northern California Kaiser Permanente hospitals between 2009 and 2013 -- tracks a baby's weight percentile in the first few days after birth and compares it with the large sample of newborns.
- "Online Tool Helps Pediatricians Assess Weight Loss in Newborns" (Cumberland Sentinel, 12/8).