Growth

Tracking growth: what to note and what to let go

Height, weight, and feeding notes are useful to keep, but they are easy to over-worry. Here is what is genuinely worth recording, and what you can comfortably let go.

Growth

What is worth recording

A light touch is usually enough. You do not need daily measurements, and for most healthy children, capturing the numbers around regular check-ups is plenty.

Growth

What you can let go

You can comfortably let go of comparing your child's numbers to other children, and of treating a single reading as a verdict. Children grow in spurts and plat…

Growth

Look at the trend, not the dot

When you do look at growth, resist focusing on the most recent point. Step back and look at the direction over several readings. A steady pattern that follows…

Growth

When to bring it up

If a trend genuinely concerns you, or your instinct tells you something has changed, that is the moment to share your notes with a doctor rather than carry the…

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