>The old growth charts were NOT solely based on artificially fed babies.
This is a persistent myth on Lactnet.  It makes me buggy that Lactnetters
perpetuate this myth.   Pat in SNJ<

I am not sure if you were refering to my post, here, Pat, and you are right,
I was not
speaking accurately, sorry, but I *was* referring to the
UK charts.  In the UK before 1990 the charts were 'Tanner Whitehouse' and
now they are ones available from a charity called The Child Growth
Foundation.  The most recent charts include 7 data sets, including one which
was commissioned by clothing manufacturers, and are cross-sectional (not
longitudinal).  Presumably they are based on populations which included
breastfed babies (sorry again for inaccuracy).  However, I think the
bias would be to short periods of bf, where there was any bf, and use of
milks quite different from modern ones.


Check CGF out at:
http://www.cgf.org.uk/

As far as I know the charts I have heard of used in the USA have not ever
been used much, if at all, in the UK -- and since charts have only become
standard to give to to each baby [in the parent held record -- dunno if an
equivilent exists in the US -- every parent has a 'red book' that goes
around with the baby like the log book of the car] in the last decade, I
don't even know how often babies were plotted on older charts.  (There were
charts in my children's baby books, but the weights were recorded, not
plotted, and I know other children their age, in different health
authorities, had no chart on their cards / books).

Does every country have its own charts?

Magda Sachs
Breastfeeding Supporter, BfN, Uk

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