Survival and Physical Growth in Infancy and Early Childhood

Commentary: The etiology of low birthweight and its economic impact in developing countries

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Breast‐Feeding, Weaning and the Diarrhoeal Syndrome in a Guatemalan Indian Village

“…At two to four months, growth curves began to depart from the standard; virtually all children were markedly retarded by two years of age ( Mata et al , 1975a. The correlation between newborn variables and weight and height obtained at school age, as well as the parallellism of the mean growth curves of children defined by fetal maturity, are evidence that children tended to grow within their tracts defined by antenatal events (Mata et al 1975b).…”

Impact of micronutrient supplementation during pregnancy on birth weight, duration of gestation, and perinatal mortality in rural western China: double blind cluster randomised controlled trial

“…2 In China, by 2004 neonatal mortality accounted for more than half of all deaths in children under 5 3. Low birthweight babies are at higher risk of morbidity and mortality than those of normal birth weight4 and are also at risk of postnatal growth retardation, with possible adverse long term effects on their physical and cognitive development 56 One of the major causes of low birth weight in developing countries is the poor nutritional status of the mother before and during pregnancy, resulting in restricted fetal growth especially during the third trimester 7…”