No. Girls and boys are measured on different growth charts because they grow in different patterns and at different rates. And one set of charts is used for babies, from birth to 36 months. Another ...

The babies were all white and mostly bottle-fed, so the charts don't take into account differences in growth rates between bottle and breast-fed babies or major changes in ethnicity in the United ...

Don't obsess about every up and down of your infant's growth chart. It's only potentially a problem when there is a persistent downward trend, usually lasting many months.

Objective: To establish, using data from a large prospective population based cohort study, norms and limits for postnatal weight loss and its impact on current growth reference charts. Method: A ...

AIM To compare the growth patterns of breast fed and formula fed Italian infants in the first 12 months of life using World Health Organisation (WHO) reference data. METHODS The growth patterns of 73 ...

Standardised growth charts were used to calculate z scores. Results Enterostomy complications were documented in 24 infants (41%). Infants of low birth weight and low gestational birth age were ...

We studied patterns of head and somatic growth (height-ht, weight-wt and head circumference-OFC) in 30 infants with CHD. Infants referred in the first 3 mos of life for CHD requiring chronic ...

SUBJECTS 932 mothers were studied regarding their interpretation of the type of growth chart their infants had been allocated. A total of 413 mothers interpreted the ‘road-to-health’ chart and 519 ...