Dr Joy Noel Weiss did research on IV fluids and newborn weight loss for her PhD. I am not sure how close her work is to being published though.

Here is a link to the systematic review she did to determine what we do know about weight loss: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3091615/

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