What does that mean? I'm still worried! A. If your baby is "following the curve" of the growth chart, she's paralleling one of the percentile lines on the chart, and the odds are good that her ...

Parents are a competitive bunch. So when the pediatrician whips out a growth chart and ranks baby's height and weight in percentiles, it's easy to wonder if something's wrong. But growth ...

It's one of the first bits of info you're given after the birth, so it's little surprise that your baby's weight is on your mind from day one! But you shouldn’t worry about it. Growth charts plot a ...

A long infant won't necessarily become a tall adult—just like short babies don't always turn into small-statured people.In ...

Learn how following the WHO growth curves may misdiagnose Inuit children's head sizes, leading to health disparities.

This calculator can help to determine whether a child has a healthy blood pressure for his/her height, age and gender. In boys and girls, the normal range of blood pressure varies based on height ...

Use this calculator to determine whether a child is at a healthy weight for his/her height, age and sex. The BMI-percentile-for-age calculator automatically adjusts for differences in height, age and ...

While it's likely there was some method when the chart was put together, it's not clear what that was and it would have been based on ancient, rather than modern, science methods. We'd say it's fun to ...

Inuit children in Nunavut, Canada, are being overdiagnosed for macrocephaly and underdiagnosed for microcephaly, two ...

If your baby is still not gaining weight as per their percentile chart (despite being healthy and having no medical condition ...