<![CDATA[Weight gain in babies is part of monitoring which influences various factors, namely genetics, gender, breastfeeding patterns, exclusive breastfeeding, supplementary feeding, family socio-economic status, and baby massage stimulation. The proportion of recorded growth monitoring in the last 12 months in children age 0-59 months in Indonesia was 43,3% and 56,9% in East Java. And the figures below regarding exclusive breastfeeding in 2022 have decreased from 2021 by 0,3%. This study aims to identify factors that influence infant weight gain. The method used is a literature review with a traditional literature review type obtained from 2 databases, namely Google Scholar and PubMed using inclusion and exclusion criteria. The literatures used were published from 2018-2022. Keywords used in the literature search: “Infants”, “Infant Weight Gain”, "“Factors That Affect Infant Weight Gain"”, "“Baby Weight Gain"”, "“Increase in Baby Weight Gain"”. The results of the study obtained from 15 journals, 1 journal discussed genetic factors, 1 journal discussed gender factors, 1 journal discussed the prenatal environment and 14 journals discussed the postnatal environment including nutrition, socioeconomic status, infant massage stimulation, maternal education level. From a review of literature studies on 15 journals, it was found that most babies experienced weight gain and found 4 factors that affected the baby's weight gain including genetics, gender, prenatal environment and postnatal environment.]]>
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