PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Mark B. Stephens
AU  - Debra A. Manning
AU  - Amy Arnold-Canuso
AU  - David M. Haas
TI  - Maternal Shoe Size and Infant Birth Weight: Correlation or Fiction?
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.19.4.426
DP  - 2006 Jul 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
PG  - 426--428
VI  - 19
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/19/4/426.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/19/4/426.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2006 Jul 01; 19
AB  - 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.