Can someone explain this to me. You know when the school measure and weigh your child and then tell you their BMI and if they are over/underweight . . .
Well mine's come back as healthy, which is great, but completely unexpected as my DC has always been at the bottom (and sometimes off the bottom) of the chart. It says that her BMI centile is 10 which puts her in the healthy range, but in her red book (she is weighed frequently) she is on 0.4 (bottom line).
Is it a different chart they use?
I know they take height into consideration so I wonder if it's that, although her height comes 2 lines above her weight. She is generally a small and very skinny child.
Confused. If my dd isn't too thin then what is!
(These conversations usually result in someone looking up an adult BMI calculator on line and children have their own I believe. Just to save the conversation going that way.)
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BMI Centile thing . . . don't understand! She's underweight!
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WhoseGotMyEyebrows · 29/07/2011 10:52
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