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The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 19:426-428 (2006)
© 2006 American Board of Family Medicine

Brief Report

Maternal Shoe Size and Infant Birth Weight: Correlation or Fiction?

Mark B. Stephens, MD, MS, Debra A. Manning, MD, Amy Arnold-Canuso and David M. Haas, MD

From the Departments of Family Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune, NC 28547

Correspondence: Corresponding author: CDR Mark B. Stephens, MD, MS, FAAFP, 100 Brewster Boulevard, Attn: Family Medicine, Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune, Camp Lejeune, NC 28547 (E-mail: mbstephens{at}nhcl.med.navy.mil)

Objective: To determine whether maternal prepregnancy shoe size can be used to reliably predict infant birth weight.

Method: This is a cross-sectional study of 111 consecutive patients admitted to the maternity care unit of a small community hospital. Data collected included prepregnancy height, maternal weight, maternal shoe size, maternal age, gravidity, parity, ethnicity, and method of delivery. Infant birth weight was recorded within the first 2 hours of life.

Results: There was no correlation between maternal shoe size and birth weight (r = 0.01; P = NS). There was no correlation between shoe size and birth weight when corrected for parity and ethnicity.

Conclusion: There is no correlation between maternal shoe and infant birth weight. This anthropometric measure should not be used to estimate infant birth weight.


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