Weight Development - PDF Package; 13 PDFs

PDF 1: Improving Weight Gain in Premature Infants Through Lactoengineering

Short description:Description of lactoengineering (method of increasing fat content in pumped mother milk) for practice

Author: Barbara Kämmerer, IBCLC

Published: 2019;2:29-30

PDF 2: A Growth Chart is but a Chart

Short description:Critical discussion of monitoring and interpretation of weight loss and growth

Author: Myrte van Lonkhuijsen, IBCLC

Published: 2019;2: 12-16

PDF 3: Nutrition and Weight Development of Premature Infants

Short description: Article on the conditions and problems of early childhood nutrition and weight gain in premature babies

Author: Dr. Thomas Kühn, Neonatologist

Published: 2019;2: 19-28

PDF 4: Weight Development in Children with Trisomy 21

Short description: Children with trisomy 21should not be assessed with percentile curves for children with normal chromosomes but with special adapted curves that reflect normality for people with this condition.

Author: Marianne Reber

Published: 2019; 2:33-36

PDF 5: Neonatal Weight Changes

Short description: Meaning, determinants and clinical implications

Author: Diane Di Tomasso PhD, RN

Published: 2019; 2:4-10

PDF 6: Weight Gain Problems - Two Clinical Cases

Short description: Two clinical cases

Author: Véronique Darmangeat

Published: 2019;2: 31-32

PDF 7: Does Breastfeeding Protect Children from Becoming Overweight?

Short description: A closer look at the evidence

Author: Sandra Hummel

Published: 2019;2: 40-41

PDF 8: Which Baby Scale?

Short description: Information about different types of scales and tips on weighing

Author: Andrea Hemmelmayr

Published: 2019;2: 38

PDF 9: Weight Charts – Descriptive or Prescriptive?

Short description:In-depth discussion of the articles in issue 2/2019

Author: Mártha Guóth-Gumberger, IBCLC

Published: 2019;3:4-9

PDF 10: EISL Recommendations on Weight Development: How to Ensure that a Breastfed Child Thrives

Short description: This statement was published in November 2019 by the Europäisches Institut für Stillen und Laktation (EISL) on their website as a reaction to various controversial articles in Lactation & Breastfeeding.

Authors: Gabriele Nindl, IBCLC, Director of EISL; Gudrun von der Ohe, IBCLC and doctor, Deputy Chair of EISL; Anja Bier, IBCLC, Editor in chief of the EISL newsletter and academic staff member of EISL and the whole team of EISL staff and instructors

Published: 2019;3

Bonus material:

The handouts can also be downloaded free of charge from the website: www.elcata-magazine.eu

B1 Handout - Weight DevelopmentPublished: 2019,2

B3 Letter to the editor, Issue 2-2019 and 3-2019, Topic: Weight development

Author: Anja Bier, IBCLC

B 4 : LACTDOC – a Practical Tool for Assessing a Child’s Weight Development

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