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Do not panic if your baby loses weight after delivery. Newborn babies normally lose 5 to 10% of their birth weight in a few days after delivery. This is because the baby loses fluid after birth. The baby will gain back all the weight after 10 to 14 days after they start breastfeeding.If, however, the baby has lost weight because of a sickness or premature birth, it will take up to 3 weeks to gain back the lost weight.Newborns gain about 30 g per day during the first month and grow about 1 to 1.5 inches in height during the same period.Newborns experience periods of rapid growth at 7 to 10 days and again at 3 and 6 weeks.ewborns gain about 30 g per day during the first month and grow about 1 to 1.5 inches in height during the same period. Newborns experience periods of rapid growth at 7 to 10 days and again at 3 and 6 weeks.
There are no official UK guidelines for how much weight you should gain over your pregnancy. There is only general advice that most women put on somewhere between 10kg and 12.5kg (22lb to 28lb) (NHS 2011) . You'll gain most of the weight after 20 weeks (NHS 2011) .y the end of your pregnancy, you may weigh about 12.5kg (27.6lb) more than you did before you were pregnant (Murray and Hassall 2014:166) . This varies from person to person, so check out our pregnancy weight gain estimator to get a more personal figure based on your own height and pre-pregnancy weight.