Here is another article similar to the one Rachel Myr posted a  few days ago. 
This one has some numbers in it. I still haven't seen any further  
information on the WHO site unless I just can't find it. I had a mom today who  said her 
ped was concerned that her 9mth olds had slowed  down in weight  gain these 
last couple of months and wants her to "start pushing solids a  whole lot more" 
to put on some weight. I would love to pass this article on to  her ped. 
 
A quote from the article:
 
And the charts suggest healthy one-year-old weighs between  22.5lb (10.2kg) 
and 28.5lb (12.93kg), when in fact the true healthy weight is  21lb (9.53kg) to 
26lb (11.79kg), they say. 
 
The researchers say the current overfeeding of babies could  explain in part 
why this generation of adults is the fattest ever.  
The WHO will release new growth charts based on breast-fed  babies at the end 
of the year.  
Researcher Dr Mecedes de Onis said: "The new standards provide a  much better 
description of the physiological growth and they establish that  breast fed 
infants are the biological norm.  
"Paediatricians will be able to congratulate parents on having  exclusively 
breast fed their infants instead of spending time as they do now in  trying to 
reassure them that the apparent growth faltering of the baby is not a  reason 
for concern and is due to the imperfections of the growth charts that are  
being used for their growth." 
_BBC  NEWS | Health | Baby weight gain 'over-estimated'_ 
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4236229.stm)  
 
 
Kim Ann  Lorber
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Mama to 4 breastfed  boys~~
Psalms  22:9 Yet you brought me out of the womb, you made me trust in you 
even at  my mother's breast. 


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