Growth and milk intake of normal infants.
- 1 September 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 53 (9) , 749-751
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.53.9.749
Abstract
The growth of 94 normal term infants was studied from birth to 6 mo. Infants (33) were breast fed and the others randomly allocated to 1 of 3 bottle feeds, Cow and Gate V formula, Baby Milk Plus and Premium. The weight, length and head growth velocities were similar in all 4 groups. The infants fed Cow and Gate V formula consumed a larger volume of feed at 3 mo. than the infants fed the 2 other formulae despite a slower weight gain. This is probably related to loss of calories in unabsorbed fat. The weight gains of all 4 groups were considerably less than infants fed unmodified milks and early solids, studied in the same region several years earlier.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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