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 1 year of age.
3. Double by 5 months of age.
4. Triple by 9 months of age.
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Rationale:
1. It would be abnormal for the infant's weight to have tripled by 6 months of age.
2. It would be abnormal for the infant's weight only to have doubled by 1 year of age.
3. Normal weight gain for an infant would be to have doubled in weight by 5 months of age.
4. It would be abnormal for the infant's weight to have tripled by 9 months of age.
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