Weight loss monitoring reduces the occurrence of neonatal hypernatremic dehydration in breastfeeding neonates.

Background: Excessive weight loss enhances the incidence of neonatal hypernatremic dehydration (NHD). We compared the effect of a new breastfeeding policy against an old breastfeeding policy on neonatal weight change and the incidence of NHD.

Methods: This was a QA project between two sets of breastfeeding (BF) protocols for exclusively BF newborns.