“We noticed a decade ago that we were kind of outstripping our growth charts,” said Dr. Tom Inge, who directs the weight loss surgery program at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. The CDC ...

The CDC recommends that healthcare providers use the WHO growth charts to monitor growth for infants and children ages 0 to 2 years, and use the CDC growth charts for those 2 years and older.

The research, published in Nature Human Behavior, analyzed MRI scans from over 1,000 children to map how different brain networks mature and interact during critical early years. These new brain ...

When a child is able to stand easily, a doctor can begin to measure their standing height. Caregivers should know that at this stage, doctors may switch from the WHO growth charts to the CDC’s ...

Children develop at different paces, but the average birth weight of a full-term male baby is 3.3 kilograms (kg) and 3.2 kg for a female. Growth charts can provide a guide to the average weight of ...