A caregiver asks the nurse to explain his infant's weight loss of 10% of birth weight, which occurred by the third or fourth day after birth. The nurse would explain that this weight loss is known as physiological weight loss and is due to which of the following causes?
A) not being nourished any longer by the rich placenta
B) the exhaustion of the baby after the birth experience
C) the loss of extracellular fluid and meconium
D) the time it takes to learn to suckle adequately
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