My apologies. I was in a hurry when I sent the previous email and didn't
check my facts!!! I was confused, and was thinking about the WHO effort to
develop a breastfeeding growth chart.

Here is some information from the CDC website about the breastfed sample
used to create these charts:
(http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/growthcharts/training/powerpoint/slides/013.htm)

"Another characteristics of the reference population that needs to be
considered is that the growth patterns of breast-fed infants differ from
those of formula-fed infants. Generally, breast-fed infants grow more
rapidly in the first 2 months of life and not as rapidly at 3 to 4 months.
Breast-fed infants continue to grow less rapidly up to 12 months compared
with the 1977 reference data, which were based on mainly formula-fed
infants.

The new reference represents the combined growth patterns of both breast-
and formula-fed infants in the United States. About 50 percent of the
infants born were reported to have been breastfed and about 33 percent of
those were breastfed 3 months or longer. Because the patterns of growth for
exclusively breast- and formula-fed infants differ, caution must be used
when interpreting growth of exclusively breast-fed infants. The American
Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends exclusively breastfeeding for the
first 6 months and continuing for at least 12 months. Currently, a reference
for exclusively breast-fed infants is not available.

However, CDC is collaborating with the World Health Organization (WHO) to
develop a set of international growth charts for infants and children
through 5 years of age based on the growth of infants and children fed
according to WHO recommendations (breast-fed at least 12 months and
complementary food introduced sometime between 4 and 6 months)."

Again, my apologies for the misinformation.
Julie

>From: Christine & Tony Holliday <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: "A forum for discussion on midwifery and reproductive health
>         research." <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Birth weight
>Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 20:47:12 +1030
>
>No there isn't.
>Christine
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: A forum for discussion on midwifery and reproductive health research.
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of dawn m cockrell
>Sent: Sunday, 2 November 2003 1:58 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Birth weight
>
>forgive the question:  is there a note on these charts to differentiate
>between the formula fed baby vs. the breastfed?
>
>Dawn
>
>On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 20:29:30 -0600 Julie Stagg <[log in to unmask]>
>writes:
> > The Centers for Disease Control recently (2000) came out with new
> > growth
> > charts, including one for breastfed babies. They are specifically
> > for the
> > United States, but I am not aware of significant differences in
> > growth
> > curves between the US and the UK or Australia.
> >
> > Here is the link to the main growth chart page:
> > http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/
> >
> > Hopes this helps!
> > Julie Stagg, RN
> > Austin, TX USA
> >
> > >From: Christine & Tony Holliday <[log in to unmask]>
> > >Reply-To: "A forum for discussion on midwifery and reproductive
> > health
> > >         research." <[log in to unmask]>
> > >To: [log in to unmask]
> > >Subject: Birth weight
> > >Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 09:28:41 +1030
> > >
> > >Hello all,
> > >
> > >Do you have any references for recently developed percentile charts
> > for
> > >birth weight?  Where I work it is being 'suggested' that all babies
> > over
> > >the
> > >90th percentile require a BSL at one hour of age.  On the chart we
> > are
> > >using
> > >the 90th percentile doesn't ever reach 4kgs, which does not appear
> > to be an
> > >uncommon weight to me.
> > >
> > >Thank you
> > >Christine
> >
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