Just looked at my MMWR  -- this is a big WAHOOO!!
Dawn Kersula in Vermont


https://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&shva=1#inbox/12af7457ec5cdc45

In 2006, CDC, the National Institutes of Health, and the American Academy of
Pediatrics convened an expert panel to review scientific evidence and
discuss the potential use of the new 2006 World Health Organization (WHO)
growth charts in clinical settings in the United States. On the basis of
input from this expert panel, CDC recommends that clinicians in the United
States use the 2006 WHO international growth charts, rather than the CDC
growth charts, for children aged <24 months (available at
http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts). The CDC growth charts should continue to
be used for the assessment of growth in persons aged 2–19 years. The
recommendation to use the 2006 WHO international growth charts for children
aged <24 months is based on several considerations, including the
recognition that breastfeeding is the recommended standard for infant
feeding. In the WHO charts, the healthy breastfed infant is intended to be
the standard against which all other infants are compared; 100% of the
reference population of infants were breastfed for 12 months and were
predominantly breastfed for at least 4 months. When using the WHO growth
charts to screen for possible abnormal or unhealthy growth, use of the 2.3rd
and 97.7th percentiles (or ±2 standard deviations) are recommended, rather
than the 5th and 95th percentiles. Clinicians should be aware that fewer
U.S. children will be identified as underweight using the WHO charts, slower
growth among breastfed infants during ages 3–18 months is normal, and
gaining weight more rapidly than is indicated on the WHO charts might signal
early signs of overweight.

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