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When experiencing the growth patterns after a baby is born, during the first year. A mother observe the gains, height, and weight of her new born baby. The growth in all infancy can be viewed as in-between slow to steady process. If fiction and truth was revised, the determination would be that babies double-triple their birth weight, before the ending of one year and each year after.


Infant growth is not only developed by the intake of nutrition, buy by; baby sleepy-hours. 90-95% of an infants development comes from sleeping at least 15-18 hours a day. If we did our calculations, and added the highest 95% for child development sleepy-hours, plus 18 hours of the infants sleep per day, giving us an answer of 113. We then divide 113 by 7 days per week, which gives us an exact 16 hours that infants sleep per day.


Growth patterns, which consists of weight gain and height. Infants grow at least 4-6 inches into the second year, gaining another 4 to 8 pounds. In generally speaking, boys can reach at least a half of their adult height, by the time of a second birthday. And girls usually mature much faster than boys, reaching a half of their adult height, at 18 months.


If it happens that infants grow taller than normal growth, the growth rates tends to slow down dramatically. The majority of infants, are shorter than average, and tends to speed up.....in their growth. The development of infancy and growth patterns, changes year after year.

Article By: Amy Walker

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