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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 > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Never get a busy signal because you are always connected with > > high-speed > > Internet access. Click here to comparison-shop providers. > > https://broadband.msn.com > > > > > >________________________________________________________________ >The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! >Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! >Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! _________________________________________________________________ Concerned that messages may bounce because your Hotmail account is over limit? Get Hotmail Extra Storage! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es