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For this baby and all of you in situations such as the second one Susan
describes, maybe the WHO developmental milestones will be of interest – they
are at:
http://www.who.int/childgrowth/standards/motor_milestones/en/index.html
The description of a weight attached to a doll as training for IBCLCs which
Susan mentioned actually surpasses the training I was told about for health
visitors in the UK (HV are nurses with extra training – each mother is
assigned a health visitor who visits at home and conducts weights at the
well-baby clinic and remains involved with the family’s health until the
youngest child is 5 years old. This is a statutory service of the state.).
I asked the HVs in my study what training they received in weighing babies
and was told: ‘None. We were taught how to weigh people in our initial
nurse training.’ Since someone can spend a couple of decades as, say, a
psychiatric nurse before becoming a health visitor, this didn’t necessarily
seem to be suitably rigorous (assuming any clinical decisions at all are
going to be based on the weights they conduct). I don't know what the
training of those who routinely weigh babies in other professions in the UK
is, or what is standard outside the UK.
I understand that the WHO training material on the growth charts is being
revised at the moment (after initial testing) and I understand that it is
due to appear on the website in November.
Magda Sachs
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