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Here is another article similar to the one Rachel Myr posted a few days ago.
This one has some numbers in it. I still haven't seen any further
information on the WHO site unless I just can't find it. I had a mom today who said her
ped was concerned that her 9mth olds had slowed down in weight gain these
last couple of months and wants her to "start pushing solids a whole lot more"
to put on some weight. I would love to pass this article on to her ped.
A quote from the article:
And the charts suggest healthy one-year-old weighs between 22.5lb (10.2kg)
and 28.5lb (12.93kg), when in fact the true healthy weight is 21lb (9.53kg) to
26lb (11.79kg), they say.
The researchers say the current overfeeding of babies could explain in part
why this generation of adults is the fattest ever.
The WHO will release new growth charts based on breast-fed babies at the end
of the year.
Researcher Dr Mecedes de Onis said: "The new standards provide a much better
description of the physiological growth and they establish that breast fed
infants are the biological norm.
"Paediatricians will be able to congratulate parents on having exclusively
breast fed their infants instead of spending time as they do now in trying to
reassure them that the apparent growth faltering of the baby is not a reason
for concern and is due to the imperfections of the growth charts that are
being used for their growth."
_BBC NEWS | Health | Baby weight gain 'over-estimated'_
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4236229.stm)
Kim Ann Lorber
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Mama to 4 breastfed boys~~
Psalms 22:9 Yet you brought me out of the womb, you made me trust in you
even at my mother's breast.
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