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Effects of mom's weight on growth of low birth weight infants?

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Dr. Nikolaos Zacharias answered

Specializes in Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Profound.: Underweight (bmi<18) and overweight (bmi>30) women are more likely to have low birth weight infants. Normalizing maternal weight during pregnancy can improve the birth weight.

Dr Fricke agreed

Answered 12/28/2018

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