While teaching parents of a newborn about normal growth and development,the nurse informs them that their child's weight should
1. triple by 6 months of age.
2. double by one year of age.
3. double by 5 months of age.
4. triple by 9 months of age.
Answer:3
Rationale:Normal weight gain for an infant would be to have doubled in weight by 5 months of age.It would be abnormal for the infant's weight to only have doubled by one year of age and to have tripled by either 6 months or 9 months of age.
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