Newborn Weight Tool marks fifth anniversary of helping providers track infant growth
Posted: Feb 10, 2020
The Newborn Weight Tool (NeWT), developed by Dr. Ian Paul, a pediatrician and professor of pediatrics and public health sciences at Penn State College of Medicine, is enjoying a good measure of online celebrity..
The tool allows providers to compare a newborn’s weight loss against data from more than 160,000 infants. It has earned 2 million page views since it debuted in 2015 and has been used by providers in 179 different nations.
NeWT’s global reach doesn’t surprise Paul, who created the tool with help from Penn State statistician Eric Schaefer and researchers from the University of California, San Francisco and Kaiser Permanente. “Every provider who cares for babies needs this information,” Paul said.
Newt Features
Compare any number of measurements to our database to track newborn weight loss
Save a link to your graph to return to it later or to share with colleagues
Bookmark it to your homescreen – it’s designed to work on your phone and tablet
