ReviewAdvances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.)2024
Expected and Desirable Preterm and Small Infant Growth Patterns.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- Fenton Third-Generation Growth Charts of Preterm Infants Without Abnormal Fetal Growth: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2025Pooled it
- Powdered human milk-derived versus bovine milk-derived breastmilk fortification: A multi-centre preterm randomised controlled trial.Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition · 2025Trial
- Defining growth faltering and malnutrition among very preterm infants in a neonatal intensive care unit.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2026Article
- Relationship between feeding milestones and comorbidities with the postnatal growth in preterm infants.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2026Article
- Reclassification of SGA and EUGR in very preterm infants after the introduction of Fenton-2025: a retrospective cohort comparison with INTERGROWTH-21st and Fenton-2013.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
- Impact of Prematurity on Metabolic Maturation.Journal of proteome research · 2026Article
- Is small for gestational age associated with reduced oxygen saturation to FiOEuropean journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
- Neonatal diet and growth outcomes in hospitalised very preterm infants: an observational study in middle income countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.Journal of global health · 2025Observational
- Gut Microbiome Composition and Variance Are Modified by Degree of Growth Failure in Preterm Infants: A Prospective Study.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Categorizing weight growth of infants born before 32 weeks' gestation using the 2023 postnatal growth charts for preterm infants.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2025Article
- [Incidence of small for gestational age infants among singleton live births and analysis of risk factors].Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2025Article
- Neonatal malnutrition, body composition, and childhood obesity in critically ill infants.Maternal health, neonatology and perinatology · 2025Article
- Postnatal Growth of Moroccan Preterm Infants: Determinants of Incomplete Catch-up Growth and Z-Score Trajectories in a Middle-Income Country.Journal of research in health sciences · 2025Article
- Racial and ethnic disparities in postnatal growth of infants born before 30 weeks of gestation.Research square · 2025Article
- Evaluating Non-Invasive Computer Vision-Based Quantification of Neonatal Movement as a Marker of Development in Preterm Infants: A Pilot Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Association Between Maternal Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Index and Growth Delay in Korean Children Aged 18-36 Months: A Population-Based Study.Journal of personalized medicine · 2025Article
- Sharing Milk and Knowledge in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Improves Care for Neonates in a Low- and Middle-Income Population-A North-South Collaboration.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Postnatal Growth Assessment of the Very-Low-Birth-Weight Preterm Infant.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Association of Neonatal Morbidities and Postnatal Growth Faltering in Preterm Neonates.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Factors influencing the growth of preterm infants in the first two years of life.Revista paulista de pediatria : orgao oficial da Sociedade de Pediatria de Sao Paulo · 2025Article
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Abstract
Adequate nutrition is necessary for achieving optimal growth and neurodevelopment. Growth is a natural and expected process that happens concomitantly with rapid advancements in neurodevelopment. Serial weight, length, and head circumference growth measures are essential for monitoring development, although identifying pathological deviations from normal growth can pose challenges. Appropriate growth assessments require considerations that a range of sizes for length, head circumference, and weight are expected and appropriate. Because of genetic differences and morbidities, there is a considerable overlap between the growth of healthy infants and those with growth alterations. Parents tend to be over-concerned about children who plot low on growth charts and often need reassurance. Thus, the use of terms such as "poor" growth or growth "failure" are discouraged when growth is approximately parallel to growth chart curves even if their size is smaller than specific percentiles. No specific percentile should be set as a growth goal; individual variability should be expected. An infant's size at birth is important information that goes beyond the common use of prognostic predictions of appropriate compared with small or large for gestational age. The lower the birthweight, the lower the nutrient stores and the more important the need for nutrition support. Compared to term infants, preterm infants at term-equivalent age have a higher percentage of body fat, but this diminishes over the next months. Current research findings support expert recommendations that preterm infants should grow, after early postnatal weight loss, similar to the fetus and then term-born infants, which translates to growth approximately parallel to growth chart curves. There is no need for a trade-off between optimum cognition and optimum future health. Each high-risk infant needs individualized nutrition and growth assessments. This review aims to examine infant growth expectations and messaging for parents of preterm and term-born infants within the broader causal framework.
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