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This study used longitudinal data from 307 mothers with firstborn infants participating in a home-visitation, child-abuse prevention program.
Firstborn infants tend to have lower birth weight than later-born infants (4– 7).
The corresponding OR was 1.2 (95% CI: 0.9 1.6), when we repeated the analysis in firstborn infants only.
Proportions of multiple births and firstborn infants were higher in the preterm groups compared with term groups.
Being unmarried has been reported to increase the likelihood of SGA for subsequent-born relative to firstborn infants [ 17].
When we restricted the analysis to firstborn infants only, the adjusted OR was 1.5 (95% CI: 0.8 2.9).
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Tables 5 and 6 provide percentile values for firstborn and non-firstborn infants (see additional file, worksheets 'Table 5-Firstborn' and 'Table 6-Nonfirstborn').
In concordance with published data, at each gestational age birth weights were higher among boys than girls, and among non-firstborn infants than firstborns.
High maternal age was associated with an increased risk for seminomas both among firstborn and non-firstborn infants and the effect of maternal age and birth order appeared to be additive (column 12).
Boys had higher birth weights than girls, later born children higher weights than firstborns, and infants born to non-Hispanic white mothers higher birth weights than those born to non-Hispanic black mothers.
When my firstborn was an infant, I fantasized about cozying up together on the couch and reading my childhood faves like Madeline or Make Way for Ducklings.
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