low birth weight infants

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization recommends Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination against tuberculosis be given at birth. However, in many developing countries, pre-term and low birth weight infants get vaccinated only after they gain the desired weight. In Kenya, the ministry of health recommends pre-term and low birth weight infants to be immunized at the time of discharge from h...

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Comparison of motor development of low birth weight (LBW) infants with and without using mechanical ventilation and normal birth weight infants

Journal: Medical Journal of Islamic Republic of Iran 2015

Faranak Aliabadi, Sepideh Nazi,

Background: To determine whether using mechanical ventilation in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) influences motor development of low birth weight (LBW) infants and to compare their motor development with normal birth weight (NBW) infants at the age of 8 to 12 months using Peabody Developmental Motor Scale 2 (PDMS-2). Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted on 70 LBW infants in ...

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Weight gain in pregnancy and its correlation with birth weight of infants in ‎women Who reffered to obstetric wards of Hajar hospital in Shahrekord

ژورنال: Journal of Holistic Nursing and Midwifery 2006

akbari, nasrin, delaram, masoumeh,

Introduction: Birth weight is one of the main determinators for somatic and mental growth in &lrm;infants and it is an important symptom of intrauterine growth. Thus recognition of factors that &lrm;affects the low birth weight and elimination of them is important.&lrm; Objective: This study was designed to detect the weight gain in pregnancy and its correlation &lrm;with birth weight of inf...

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Effect of mother's infant massage on neonatal weight and perceived self-efficacy of mothers with low birth weight infants

ژورنال: کومش 2020

Borimnejad , Leili , Haghani, Hamid, Mousavi, Somayeh, Rostami, Shahnaz,

Introduction: Weight is the most important growth factor in newborns and perceived self-efficacy is known as an effective factor weigh gaining. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of mother's infant massage on neonatal weight and perceived self-efficacy of mothers with low birth weight infants. Materials and Methods: 80 infants were divided into intervention and control groups in ...

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association of dietary patterns during pregnancy and cord blood nitric oxide level with birth weight of newborns

Journal: :international journal of pediatrics 0

saba naghavi 1islamic azad university, najafabad branch, shariati hospital, isfahan, iran. sadegh baradaran mahdavi student research committee, school of medicine, isfahan university of medical sciences, isfahan, iran. bita moradi biostatistics department, child growth and development research center, research institute for primordial prevention of non-communicable disease, isfahan university of medical sciences, isfahan, iran. mohammad hasan tajadini biotechnology department, applied physiology research center, isfahan university of medical sciences, isfahan, iran. roya kelishadi pediatrics department, child growth and development research center, research institute for primordial prevention of non-communicable disease, isfahan university of medical sciences, isfahan, iran.

background: maternal nutrition during pregnancy affects the birth weight of neonates. some of the undesirable pregnancy outcomes are linked to lower birth weights. this study aimed to assess the relationship between maternal dietary patterns, weight gain during pregnancy and nitric oxide (no), as an endothelial relaxing factor, and the possible effects on birth weight.materials and methods: at ...

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