RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Failure to thrive at the breast: an old problem revisited.
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood
JO Arch Dis Child
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 974
OP 975
DO 10.1136/adc.52.12.974
VO 52
IS 12
A1 T J Evans
A1 D P Davies
YR 1977
UL http://adc.bmj.com/content/52/12/974.abstract
AB Four apparently normal breast-fed infants failed to thrive when fed on demand. They all shared a tendency to accept long intervals between feeds from birth. Infant welfare clinics should be alerted to this problem. If infants who attend these clinics are accurately weighed and their progress carefully recorded on weight charts this insidiously developing complaint could be detected earlier and with appropriate advice, a potentially serious condition averted.