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Pediatric Nursing: Growth and developmental milestones · Patterns of Physical Growth

Understand how children grow, from newborn weight changes and fontanelles to growth charts, percentiles and the pubertal growth spurt.

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Pediatric Nursing · 30 questions

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1. A healthy infant weighed 3.5 kg at birth. Roughly what should the baby weigh around the first birthday?

  1. About 10.5 kg
  2. About 14 kg
  3. About 7 kg
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Answer: About 10.5 kg

Birth weight typically doubles by about 5 to 6 months and triples by 12 months, so 3.5 kg becomes roughly 10.5 kg.

2. By how much does a baby's length typically increase during the first year of life?

  1. About 25 percent
  2. About 100 percent
  3. About 50 percent
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Answer: About 50 percent

A newborn of about 50 cm usually reaches about 75 cm by 12 months, an increase of roughly half the birth length.

3. A breastfed newborn has lost 6 percent of birth weight by day three. What does this most likely indicate?

  1. An early feeding disorder
  2. Normal early fluid loss
  3. Insufficient breast milk supply
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Answer: Normal early fluid loss

Newborns normally lose up to about 7 to 10 percent of birth weight, mostly fluid, in the first days and regain it by around two weeks.

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