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Growth and failure to thrive

01 April 2002

Paediatric Nursing

Continuing professional development growth and failure to thrive

Monitoring of growth in early life is particularly important as growth is elastic and sensitive to environmental factors, especially nutrition. Deficits are unlikely...

A study into weight gain in infants with cleft lip/palate

24 July 2008

Paediatric Nursing

A&S Science

Faltering weight (or failure to thrive) in infants with cleft lip and palate has largely been attributed to early feeding difficulties. In recent years, the...

Failure to thrive

01 July 2001

Primary Health Care

CPD

Aims and intended learning outcomes This article aims to provide an overview of current scientific understanding of the role of nutrition in failure to thrive in...

An update on complementary feeding

02 November 2018

Nursing Children and Young People

Nutrition

Complementary feeding is an important developmental milestone in children and occurs at a formative time for the development of healthy eating habits that can...

Biological basis of child health 7: growth, development and the reproductive system

05 October 2020

Nursing Children and Young People

growth

This article is the seventh in a series on the biological basis of child health. It describes early developmental milestones, stages of growth, puberty and the...