[pronut-hiv] New World Health Organization growth charts for breastfed babies

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Based on careful studies of breastfed babies living under "ideal" 
conditions in several countries, WHO has determined that they grow at 
similar rates and that this growth pattern is the ideal one. Thus they 
have issued a series of new growth charts, separate ones for boys and 
girls of different ages. The previous international ones were based on 
how largely bottle fed American babies grew. 

If you plot the growth of your breastfed baby on these new charts, you 
may get a pleasant surprise--at some ages what used to look like 
mild "growth retardation" now shows up as normal growth. Spread the 
word!

Go to this website to read about the new growth standards

http://www.who.int/nutrition/media_page/en/

and to this one to download the growth charts

http://www.who.int/childgrowth/standards/chart_catalogue/en/index.html