Babies who are growing well are generally healthy, while poor growth can be a sign of a problem. Newborns come in a range of healthy sizes. Most babies born between 37 and 40 weeks weigh somewhere ...

Whether they're developing on track? Whether any medical problems are affecting growth? Doctors use growth charts to help answer those questions. Here are some facts about growth charts and what they ...

What does that mean? I'm still worried! A. If your baby is "following the curve" of the growth chart, she's paralleling one of the percentile lines on the chart, and the odds are good that her ...

Studies have shown that customised growth charts increase the antenatal detection rate of SGA babies from 29% to 48% (p=0.02). Methodology The authors reviewed the birth weights of all stillborn ...

These tools do the complex calculations for you and save time. Growth charts have been around for a long time to track a newborn’s health, weight, length, and head circumference. But tracking ...

Parents are a competitive bunch. So when the pediatrician whips out a growth chart and ranks baby's height and weight in percentiles, it's easy to wonder if something's wrong. But growth ...

Actual weights in the first fortnight are half to one centile space lower than growth charts suggest, while birthweight centiles for children born at 37 weeks were two centile spaces lower.