First: Hi Magda!  Glad to see this post as you distilled his talk far better
than I could.
Magda wrote that she didn't make a note of why Tim Cole felt that no chart
should be used in the first four weeks of life.  I don't think he did
elaborate, but his remark was in response to a question from the audience,
something about how to interpret the initial drop in weight after birth and
the variation in time it takes to regain it or something.  
He didn't say babies ought not to be weighed, just that the weight probably
should not be plotted on a chart, as I understood him.
His talk was very interesting indeed, and a few of us were on the verge of
standing up to cheer when he made the comment on the lack of need for charts
for children of different ethnicities, since these standards are based on
data from children in six very different countries and parts of the world,
all selected because their living conditions are as close to ideal as it is
possible to come, according to what we already know about children's growth
and developmental needs.  Seeing the growth curves overlaid on each other
was dramatic - they were practically identical from all the very diverse
sites in the study.

Rachel Myr
Kristiansand, Norway
 

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