If a child's weight is at the 50th percentile line ... Don't obsess about every up and down of your infant's growth chart. It's only potentially a problem when there is a persistent downward ...

The current standards for infant growth were published back ... Merely being in a high percentile part of the chart doesn't mean your little one has a weight problem, however.

In ambulatory care settings, infant growth is used to assess breastfeeding adequacy. However, the assessment of weight gain and ... Thus, a look at growth charts in use today is in order.

To assess rapid growth, the study relied on a measurement called the weight-for-length z-score (WLZ) a tool used to track an ...

The most frequently used breastfeeding assessment tools include: the Infant Breastfeeding Assessment Tool, the Mother-Baby Assessment, the LATCH tool, the Systematic Assessment of the Infant at ...