A nurse is preparing to admit a newborn to the NICU who weighs 1,750 g.What classification does the nurse use to describe this infant?

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A normal birth weight baby is between the 10th and 90th percentile on the developmental growth chart for developmental age.A low-birth-weight baby is a newborn weighing less than 2,500 g.A very-low-birth-weight infant weighs less than 1,500 g,and an extremely low-birth-weight infant weighs less than 1,000 g.

A Nurse Is Preparing to Admit a Newborn to the NICU