In the early months of your baby’s life, this book is very important to you, as gauging your child’s growth is a key indicator that he is well and that he is drinking enough milk. In the past the ...
Officials have admitted that growth charts issued by the Department of Health, which are used by health visitors and doctors to ensure your baby is thriving, are incorrect. The growth charts are based ...
Inuit children in Nunavut, Canada, are being overdiagnosed for macrocephaly and underdiagnosed for microcephaly, two neurological conditions measured by head size, because of reliance on World Health ...
What does that mean? I'm still worried! A. If your baby is "following the curve" of the growth chart, she's paralleling one of the percentile lines on the chart, and the odds are good that her ...
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Parents are a competitive bunch. So when the pediatrician whips out a growth chart and ranks baby's height and weight in percentiles, it's easy to wonder if something's wrong. But growth ...