The first few months in a prematurely born baby's life are profoundly important with postnatal growth critical to a preterm baby's healthy development.

A premature baby isn't going to follow the same growth curve as a baby who was born full-term. Pediatricians will track a premature baby differently, or by using a special premature growth chart.

The growth charts differ based on age, gender, as well as whether a baby was born full-term or premature.

Here's the average baby weight and length at various stages, including what to expect in terms of growth charts, milestones, and tips for monitoring your baby's development.

To assess the impact of using the recently published WHO growth standard, based on healthy, breastfed infants in multiple countries that excluded prematurely born infants, versus the Infant Health ...

Prolacta Bioscience®, the world's leading hospital provider of 100% human milk-based nutritional products for critically ill and premature infants, announced today that the journal Nutrients has ...

Learn about the complications that preterm babies can get and the kind of care they need, including treatment in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

And one day he started sketching on his own growth chart. "Garfield I really liked, then I drew basketball," Julian said. And soon a family business was born: Watch Me Grow charts.