Don't get excited about the growth charts coming out of the CDC.

#1) The do not distinguish between breastfed and bottle-fed babies.
#2) Are they standardized?  We will not know until seeing them.

REAL standardized growth charts will be available that uses BREASTFED
babies as the norm by around 2003.  The study being used will have many
hundreds of babies in it from at least 7 sites worldwide and thus will be
applicable to all groups.

We don't know WHAT group of babies the CDC charts are based on? only
Caucasians? only US kids?

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