{"id":194,"date":"2008-11-17T12:53:02","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T19:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2008-11-17T12:53:02","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T19:53:02","slug":"the-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"The Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my friend Madeline just commented on my last post (fretting about Robin&#8217;s recent lack of growth) to tell me something really important:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Isabel\u2019s growth stalled out at around this same age. She was around the same percentiles for height and weight as Robin, and at around a year, she stopped gaining weight for months. Our pediatrician told us that the growth curves are based on both breast-fed and formula-fed babies, but that breast-fed babies have a different growth pattern (faster for the first 6 months or so, slower later) than formula-fed babies (steadier and more consistent). Our pediatrician told us it was nothing to worry about, and that we shouldn\u2019t make a big effort to get her to eat more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kellymom.com\/babyconcerns\/growth\/growthcharts.html\">This is true<\/a>!\u00a0 And it&#8217;s something that might cause me to change pediatricians, as now I&#8217;m really angry that the doctor scared me about something he should have <em>known<\/em> was perfectly normal for a breastfed baby.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, one of the parenting blogs I read is having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/parenting\/detail?blogid=29&amp;entry_id=32466\">a big discussion<\/a> about how unreliable those growth charts are today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my friend Madeline just commented on my last post (fretting about Robin&#8217;s recent lack of growth) to tell me something really important: Isabel\u2019s growth stalled out at around this same age. She was around the same percentiles for height and weight as Robin, and at around a year, she stopped gaining weight for months. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}