TY - JOUR T1 - Maternal Shoe Size and Infant Birth Weight: Correlation or Fiction? JF - The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine JO - J Am Board Fam Med SP - 426 LP - 428 DO - 10.3122/jabfm.19.4.426 VL - 19 IS - 4 AU - Mark B. Stephens AU - Debra A. Manning AU - Amy Arnold-Canuso AU - David M. Haas Y1 - 2006/07/01 UR - http://www.jabfm.org/content/19/4/426.abstract N2 - 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. ER -