New WHO Growth Charts
Posted by TulipGirl | Under Breastfeeding Friday Apr 28, 2006Via an e-mail from Ted Greiner, breastfeeding advocate, I heard that the World Health Organization has updated its infant and child growth charts. Greiner says, “Based on careful studies of breastfed babies living under “ideal” conditions in several countries, WHO has determined that they grow at similar rates and that this growth pattern is the ideal one. Thus they have issued a series of new growth charts. . . The previous international ones were based on how largely bottle fed American babies grew.”
The new charts can be found here:
Child Growth Standards
WHO Child Growth Media Centre
Glad to hear it, I have commented many times that there needs to be new growth charts for exclusively breastfed babies.
I agree, Amie.