| json_metadata | "{"app":"Musing","appTags":["Health"],"appCategory":"Health","appBody":"<p>Most newborns lose around 300 g of weight in their first days of life. If yours has happened, calm, because they usually recover it right away.</p>\n<p>The physiological weight loss in the newborn is part of their adaptation to the world. Although parents are overwhelmed when they see that the scale's needle falls, there is no reason to be alarmed.</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>On average, babies lose between 10% and 12% of their body weight in their first days and begin to recover gradually from the tenth.</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>Why lose weight?</p>\n<p>This weight loss is mainly due to three causes:</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>Inexperience in suction. Although children are born with this acquired reflex, they take time to perfect it, so that many times they fall asleep in the middle of the shots and they suck less than they should. To wake them you have to wet them a bit with a damp cloth, blow them or tickle them on the feet.</p>\n<p>Loss of liquid \"The baby is born with an excess of water that is not inside the blood vessels or inside the cells, but, so to speak, free in the tissues. Hence, its elimination is very simple through urine, \"explains Dr. José Antonio Martínez Orgado, neonatologist at the University Hospital Puerta de Hierro, in Majadahonda (Madrid).</p>\n<p>Expulsion of meconium. \"It's the first poop the newborn makes. It is formed by remnants of cells of the intestinal wall, skin and hair and amniotic fluid that the fetus has swallowed. Although its volume is very variable in each case, it is estimated at 10 g per kilo of weight of the child, \"says the neonatologist.</p>\n<p><strong>An observation </strong></p>\n<p>Why lose weight?</p>\n<p>This weight loss is mainly due to three causes:</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>Inexperience in suction. Although children are born with this acquired reflex, they take time to perfect it, so that many times they fall asleep in the middle of the shots and they suck less than they should. To wake them you have to wet them a bit with a damp cloth, blow them or tickle them on the feet.</p>\n<p>Loss of liquid \"The baby is born with an excess of water that is not inside the blood vessels or inside the cells, but, so to speak, free in the tissues. Hence, its elimination is very simple through urine, \"explains Dr. José Antonio Martínez Orgado, neonatologist at the University Hospital Puerta de Hierro, in Majadahonda (Madrid).</p>\n<p>Expulsion of meconium. \"It's the first poop the newborn makes. It is formed by remnants of cells of the intestinal wall, skin and hair and amniotic fluid that the fetus has swallowed. Although its volume is very variable in each case, it is estimated at 10 g per kilo of weight of the child, \"says the neonatologist.</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"pka7ted75","appParentAuthor":"ifunanyasuberu","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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