Lee,  


My comments on "normal" not "breastfeeding" are NOT    W . H . O . 's but my
own...trying to "Weissingerize" the charts - they  were made with
exclusively breastfed babies in many different countries and cultures - so
that the argument that these were made with one ethnicity is eliminated.
They were also done in locations that were totally "food safe" - in other
words, these mothers and babies had no risk of malnutrition due to lack of
food.  In the US it was done in affluent Davis, California - home of the
University of California at Davis.
 
My point on this "normal" charts is that it is what ALL babies should be
compared to - not just breastfed babies - if formula-fed babies gain weight
faster than these charts - this is a PROBLEM - because the NORM are these
charts.
 
 Kay Dewey from UC Davis was the lead investigator here, and is in Geneva
now and  will be preparing presentations to answer questions  (which we HOPE
will come from reporters) on the differences in the two charts.  
 
As none of us have seen it we may be assuming incorrectly that they will be
very different - but as a mother and grandmother of breastfed children whose
pediatricians always said our babies were small  weight for  height (too
light for their height) , I think that the 12 month point will be very
telling - that the old charts were trying to get children to gain too fast -
especially in the second 6 months.   Perhaps one of the sources of current
obesity problems! 
 
You are totally right in wanting to market them.    Great idea about giving
out the charts for WBW - imagine that they are "breaking the code" every
time they use a  [formula company] grid, so we would be following the theme
of the week AND distributing new information.
 
Jeanette  Panchula, BSW, RN, PHN, IBCLC
California, USA 

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