Hi all,

What we hear here, is that HCP's seem to be inclined to use WHO-charts on bf babies and the formula ones on formula fed babies.
This is *so* weird...! It is like measuring people with a high blood pressure or with overweight on a schedule that gives averages of people with high blood pressure or overweight and then to say: "You are fine, you fall within normal average lines and figures of people with this condition." I try to explain this in my groups, but even bf moms sometimes have a hard time understanding why this procedure is wrong. Society might get frightened, if the new, biologic standard would be applied to all babies...!

Kindly,

Marianne Vanderveen, Netherlands (and planning to get these WHO growth charts printed for her practice)

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