Symptomatic hypoglycemia in otherwise healthy, breastfed term newborns

Transient symptomatic neonatal hypoglycemia, a diagnosis that is made in th e neonatal nursery, is not usually associated with apparently normal infant s who have been discharged from hospital. We describe 3 such cases that pre sented at home on day 3 of life with seizures or life-threatening apneas. W e postulate that early discharge of apparently normal infants with marginal nutritional or metabolic adaptation, may expose some infants to postdischa rge (but still neonatal) hypoglycemia and its attendant risks.