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Article: A growing concern: soon the UK will adopt new World Health Organization growth charts based on measurements of breastfed babies. Tam Fry of the Child Growth Foundation looks at the implications.
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- Community Practitioner
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- May 1, 2007
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The UK is about to adopt, as standard, new World Health Organization (WHO) weight and length/height charts. They are based on the growth of exclusively breastfed infants and a preliminary announcement that the UK will soon have them could be made to coincide with National Breastfeeding Awareness Week (13-19 May).
It would be difficult to imagine a better way to mark the week and reassure breastfeeding mothers that the weight of their children will now be monitored on charts reflecting the way in which nature intended babies to grow. In all, five full year's worth of WHO charts are on offer and the first year, in particular, will be the chart to be used whatever ...