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Neonatal Weight Loss

Neonatal weight loss is “physiologic”, meaning virtually omni-present. In general the weight loss is during the first postnatal week of about 3-6%. In infants with Down syndrome weight loss is more prominent. Also in general the loss stops and by 10 weeks or so the weight is recovered. I do not know if this phenomenon represents fetal edema, but it seems so (see illustration).