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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