Unknowingly, the baby in the family has grown up bit by bit! Do new parents understand their baby’s growth curve? There is a picture in the Children's Health Handbook. Do you know how to use it? In fact, as long as you make good use of this chart, you can grasp your baby's growth status!
In addition, remind moms and dads that baby’s nutrition is closely related to growth and development. Breastfeeding, cultivating good eating habits from an early age, and receiving regular preventive child care are all small steps to make your baby healthier. oh!
Children’s growth curve? Where does it come from?
The child growth curve currently used in Taiwan adopts the child growth standards issued by the World Health Organization as a reference for the use of infant growth curves, and the World Health Organization (WTO) is Through transnational cooperation, we selected 8,440 people from different countries, races and genders around the world who met relevant factors such as breastfeeding and adding non-staple foods in a timely manner, having good hygiene and care, mothers not smoking, and being in good health... The growth and development of culturally educated children aged 0 to 5 years old were analyzed to draw a global standard growth curve chart for children aged 0 to 5 years old, and published in 2006 as a reference for countries around the world.
Dads and moms can find a foldout in the children's health manual, which is a children's growth chart. There are front and back sides, which are the length (height), weight and head circumference of boys and girls... etc. There are 5 percentile graphs of three growth indicators on each graph, representing the 97th, 85th, 50th, 15th, and 3rd percentiles of the same age group from top to bottom.
Tips! Original version VS. New version
Because most of the growth standards used in the past at home and abroad were based on infants and young children fed formula milk, and infants and young children fed formula milk gain weight faster than those fed breast milk.
However, the biggest difference between the new version of the child growth curve and the original version is that the new version of the child growth curve standard is based on the World Health Organization's transnational cooperation, which investigated the growth of children who were fed breast milk and grew up in a good and healthy environment. This prevents breast-fed babies from being misjudged as underweight.
Using the child growth curve? 3+1 steps
How should parents use the child growth curve chart at hand? With just 3+1 simple steps, please follow us to draw a healthy growth curve unique to your baby!
Step 1. Look at the abscissa first.
Dads and moms can first find the term/age of the baby indicated by the abscissa according to the gender of the baby. For example: the baby is currently 8 If you are one month old, choose the position where the abscissa reads "8 months".
Step 2, then find the ordinate
Then find the length/height (cm), weight (kg) and head circumference (cm) values ??on the ordinate respectively, for example : If your height is 73 centimeters, look at the range between 70 and 73 centimeters and find the position of 73 centimeters. The same goes for weight and head circumference.
If dads and moms look carefully at children's growth charts, they will find that there is a gap in the length/height curves at the age of 2, mainly because of different measurement methods; before the age of 2, the baby is measured when he is lying down. The length when the child is 2 years old and above is the height when standing.
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