For this baby and all of you in situations such as the second one Susan 
describes, maybe the WHO developmental milestones will be of interest – they 
are at:
http://www.who.int/childgrowth/standards/motor_milestones/en/index.html 

The description of a weight attached to a doll as training for IBCLCs which 
Susan mentioned actually surpasses the training I was told about for health 
visitors in the UK (HV are nurses with extra training – each mother is 
assigned a health visitor who visits at home and conducts weights at the 
well-baby clinic and remains involved with the family’s health until the 
youngest child is 5 years old.  This is a statutory service of the state.).  
I asked the HVs in my study what training they received in weighing babies 
and was told: ‘None.  We were taught how to weigh people in our initial 
nurse training.’   Since someone can spend a couple of decades as, say, a 
psychiatric nurse before becoming a health visitor, this didn’t necessarily 
seem to be suitably rigorous (assuming any clinical decisions at all are 
going to be based on the weights they conduct).  I don't know what the 
training of those who routinely weigh babies in other professions in the UK 
is, or what is standard outside the UK. 

I understand that the WHO training material on the growth charts is being 
revised at the moment (after initial testing) and I understand that it is 
due to appear on the website in November. 

Magda Sachs 

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