... maternal diet has been used to establish a model of both fetal growth restriction followed by rapid catch up growth and slowed postnatal growth. Catch up animals, which are born smaller (70% of control pup birth weight), show increased weight gain on the highly palatable diet compared with control animals...

... The Biochemical Society 2006 birth weight developmental programming epigenetic modification fetal growth maternal nutrition Type 2 diabetes Although fetal growth and development are driven by the programme encoded in its genome, the genetic regulation of fetal growth is influenced by the intra...