Large-for-gestational age (LGA), a marker of fetal overgrowth, has been linked to obesity in adulthood. Little is known about how infancy growth trajectories affect adiposity in early childhood in LGA ...

Exposure to high levels of heat may both impact the growth of fetuses during pregnancy and infants up to the age of 2, a new analysis suggests. The research, which examined data from infants and their ...

A study of over 2,800 mother-child pairs across eight ECHO Cohort sites links a prenatal diet following USDA guidelines to healthier infant growth patterns, reducing risks associated with obesity.

Very preterm infants born before 32 weeks of gestation remain vulnerable to postnatal growth impairment. However, longitudinal data focusing on appropriate-for-gestational-age (AGA) infants are ...

Expectant mothers who maintain a diet that meets USDA dietary guidelines during pregnancy may be more likely to have infants with healthy birthweights, steadier growth patterns, and potentially a ...

Vegan and vegetarian diets were associated with increased odds of being underweight in early infancy, the first 60 days of life, compared with an omnivore diet, with these differences less pronounced ...

Minipuberty refers to a specific period in early postnatal life with high activity of the hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal (HPG) hormone axis. In infant boys 1 to 3 months of age, high concentrations of ...

Researchers from the University of Iowa found that babies fed lactose-free or hydrolyzed formulas gained weight faster in their first year, raising new questions about how modern formula compositions ...

Two of the U.S. premarket regulatory requirements for infant formula involve specific “quality factors”: the biological quality of protein in the infant formula and the ability of the infant formula ...