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Re: WHO Growth charts
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Pat Young <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:38:12 -0500
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Ditto - kg vs. lbs is our major roadblock.  Pat in SNJ, who would LOVE to 
use WHO charts.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michelle Swanson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: WHO Growth charts


> We print off copies of the WHO growth chart and distribute them to 
> attendees of our LLL Prenatal Breastfeeding Class.  We encourage the 
> parents to give them to their peds at their first visit and have their 
> child's weight measured on that chart instead.  The feedback that we hear 
> from parents is that nurses don't like the charts because they are unable 
> to convert from US pound measurements to universal metric measurements. 
> Very few 'average' type folks are able to convert comfortably back and 
> forth between the two.  If someone would/could take the time to make a 
> lovely WHO chart available in US pounds, then I could see it being more 
> widely used in my area.  The peds don't seem to care one way or another, 
> but the nurses seem to.
>
> Michelle Swanson, LLLL
> Wyoming
> snowing and blowing here on this cold Monday
> :-)
>
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