English babies to get new growth charts from May

[theyoungvisiter]

According to this BBC story all babies in England will be switching over to breastfed charts in the red book, with Scotland, Wales and NI to follow.

It means that more babies will be classed as overweight though.

My Dd's book weight chart from Dec 06 says 'Breast from birth'. Ds's book from Aug 98 says 'Boys weight birth to 1 year'.

oo interesting - maybe you were in some pilot study area?

Both my babies (06 and 09) were on the old charts.

Hmmmmmmmm...no idea!

I liked the following quote:

Professor Charlotte Wright, of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, which helped design the charts, added: "In retrospect, I think health staff realise we have probably been worrying some mothers unnecessarily about their baby's weight."

Oh, you think?

I know! It's like lol, it only took you 40 years to realise