WHAT BABY SHOULD WEIGH.
The baby of normal weight tips the scales down at birth, at the Seven poiind mai-k. If he or she is much heavier or much lighter, he or she is at odds with the average. A peculiar feature of baby weight is that, during the first days of its life, the youngster—that is, the perfectly normal youngster —loses one pound. Thus, examination made on the second and fourth day will show a weight of six pounds only. But after tile first week, at the end of which time the lost pound should be re-g-ained, there- is a steady advance. Ten pounds should have been reached by the time the baby is eight weeks old, and when it is 20 weeks old the weight should be 14 pounds. At seven months the figure should be 16 pounds, and the year old baby should have a mark of 21 pounds to its credit. And so the future citizen or citizeness goes 'on building up, until; at the age of two years, it is able to point -with' pride to a record of 27 pounds.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 167, 27 July 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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186WHAT BABY SHOULD WEIGH. Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 167, 27 July 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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