WHO growth charts

[duchesse]

Links to the World Health Organisation growth charts. Supposed to be more representative of "optimum" growth for babies and children. I thought it might handy to have them linked somewhere on here so that mums feeling frazzled by the HV or the red book don't need to go looking for them as they're a bit hard to find on their site.

These two pages are contain all the charts you could possibly need; they all download as Pdfs.

Infant growth

Child and adolescent growth

[LindaCymru]

Thank you! Printed and ready to go!

[duchesse]

bump.

Trying to keep these accessible for people with slower growing babies.

[dd666]

Bump

[frisbyrat]

Thanks, Duchesse!

On a similar note - and sorry for the hijack - I have a bunch of those weight/length centile charts that go in the red book(0-52) for b/f babies, that I bought about 3 years ago because my HV claimed she hadn't heard of them. .
Anyone want some (got about 20 of each gender) before I thrust them forcefully at donate them to the aforementioned HV?

[tiktok]

duchesse, they will not help with slower growing babies

At least, they won't unless the baby is over about 6 mths old.

WHO charts show the growth attained by babies fed physiologically, ie wholly or predominantly bf to about 6 mths, and as has been shown in previous studies, growth tends to come out as rather faster than standard charts - at first.

I have said a few times on MN that the issue with babies who appear slow to gain is very rarely resolved by using a different chart.... if there is no underlying problem, then getting a different HV might help

[duchesse]

No, they don't help the babies. They help the mums' morale though...

[duchesse]

and tiktok- I agree re the HV change thing. I had one dreadful one, then a superb one. Made all the difference.

[duchesse]

sorry, they help the mums' morale when their child is still 20 lbs at age 2... ( I speak from experience)