New WHO growth charts

[Esther Grunis IBCLC]

New WHO growth charts

These growth charts show how normal babies should grow. They will replace the growth charts used until now in tipat halav which were based on artificially fed babies. Print them and ask that your tipat halav nurse use them from now on.​

 

[מי100]

שלום אסתר

הטבלאות האלה הן למשקל של בנות בלבד? אם כן אודה לך אם תוכלי לצרף גם טבלאות המתאימות לבנים.

 

[Esther Grunis IBCLC]

Growth charts

 

[Esther Grunis IBCLC]

Boys

 

[Esther Grunis IBCLC]

More boys

 

[מי100]

תודה רבה

 

[Esther Grunis IBCLC]

The WHO site

Here is the whole list. Print what is appropriate and give to your tipat halav nurse or pediatrician​

 

[אלונה ע]

שאלה לאסתר

בני בן ה-5 חודשים שוקל קרוב ל-7 ק"ג,(משקל לידה 3200), האם הוא באחוזון ה-15? האם אני קוראת נכון את הטבלה? תודה

 

[אלונה ע]

תיקון- אחוזון 33 בערך?

 

[Ronnie Tal IBCLC]

לפי הטבלה זה נראה לי יותר כמו

אחוזון 30

שזה די קרוב למה שהיה בלידתו.

 

[אלונה ע]

זה לא מדאיג? הוא נורא רזה....

 

[Esther Grunis IBCLC]

Infant growth

Normal infant growth is the growth of a breastfed baby since breastfeeding is the normal way to feed a human infant. Growth has many factors. Take genetics and ethnicity for example. Babies from asian countries are smaller, while babies from Northern cold countries are larger. You have to take into account these facts when looking at growth. If you and your husband are tall and skinny, it is normal that you have a thinner baby ( and healthier by the way). look at the baby of your neighbor who is not breastfeeding........those babies are fat, doughy, and almost monsteresque, while breastfed babies are just right. what you want to see is that your baby stays in his percentile, and I think that he did. what is also amazing is that if the breastfed baby is really fat in the beginning, by about age 2 years,he slims down to a healthy weight. Here is the whole document on how these charts were developed if anyone is interested.​