For example: No. Girls and boys are measured on different growth charts because they grow in different patterns and at different rates. And one set of charts is used for babies, from birth to 36 ...

Babies this age continue to grow in size, and in what they can do. Many of the new skills they're learning — like holding their head up and sitting — help them get ready to start eating solid food ...

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 ...

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 ...