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The World Health Organization recommends starting in small amounts that gradually increase as the child gets older: 2 to 3 meals per day for infants 6 to 8 months of age and 3 to 4 meals per day for infants 9 to 23 months of age, with 1 or 2 additional snacks as required. [1] Newborns need a diet of breastmilk or infant formula. In infants ...
While the adult human skull is about one seventh of the total body length, the newborn's is about 1 ⁄ 4. Normal head circumference for a full-term infant is 33–36 cm at birth. [6] At birth, many regions of the newborn's skull have not yet been converted to bone, leaving "soft spots" known as fontanels. The two largest are the diamond-shaped ...