Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

Parenting

For free parenting resources please check out the Early Years Alliance's Family Corner.

Percentiles Growth charts - what do they mean?

1 reply

NooNooMummy · 06/02/2014 23:30

Can someone please explain the baby growth charts to me: My 3 month old baby girl has been in the 50th percentile up until now. At her weigh- in yesterday, she had dropped to 1 percentile. What does this mean?!!

As far as I can tell, it means that her growth has slowed down but it's nothing to worry about. (The HV at the weigh-in said that her weight was fine and it was only afterwards, when I looked at the growth charts, that I saw that she's dropped from the 50th percentile).

And if it's something to worry about, what should I do? Do i need to review her feeding and get some advice on it?

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
lilyaldrin · 06/02/2014 23:40

The percentiles are averages - dropping a centile (presumably you mean from the 50th to the 25th?) means her growth has slowed slightly but going up or down a couple of lines is really normal.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Swipe left for the next trending thread