Online NZ Growth Charts

Does anyone know if there are online NZ growth charts? Was at the hospital today and according to their one, Daniel is 50%tile; according to Plunket he's 15%tile. I'm a little obsessive about charting so wondered if there was anything on the www. (Google didn't help me - just gave me lots of height charts for sale on TM )

I used to be obsessive over such things then just decided to chill if hes growing well and happy that's the important thing:) the one in the plunket book is the one my doc goes on(wellchild)

I was hunting for one recently online that I could plot lil miss' growth on coz she has had big gains then plateaus then big gains then plateaus then gains etc. so I wanted to see the pattern and the one in the Well Child book is too small to really see the curve. I didn't have any luck tho so will be watching this thread to see if anyone else can come up with one.

Yep, a boy in my coffee group is the same height and weight and is the 50th on his plunket book. I feel very confusseled.

Edited by Flissty

None of this makes any sense to me. I mean surely your birth weight is not the only factor in how you will turn out. Amy was on the 97th at birth but is now down below the 50th. Both DH and I were small children so i'd be VERY surprised if she turned out to be a big child. I think she just grew bigger than she "should" have inside me

Zebra7 wrote: None of this makes any sense to me. I mean surely your birth weight is not the only factor in how you will turn out. Amy was on the 97th at birth but is now down below the 50th. Both DH and I were small children so i'd be VERY surprised if she turned out to be a big child. I think she just grew bigger than she "should" have inside me

I couldn't agree more. Alex was born on the 75th (big shock to us as DS1 was only on the 25th)and is now off the bottom of the chart. Not a thing wrong with him, he's just not gaining heaps of weight all the time. DS1 was an implied Failure to thrive at 4 weeks because he supposedly wasn't putting on enough weight and formula "top ups" did nothing for yonks. Looking back now, I wish I had ignored the advice to top him up and just let him get on with it, but hindsight is 20/20. I think the fact that he had colic and reflux didn't help on the weight front and if left alone would probably have been fine, just not weighed alot. I was ff from birth and I was the smallest child going, can still eat whatever I want and not gain anything so figure that Alex is just following me on the weight gaining front.

As long as they are gaining something, are growing in other ways like length/head circumference, are meeting developmental milestones, requisite number of wet/dirty nappies and seem happy and content when awake then there's probably not anything wrong. I wasn't about to subject Alex to a bunch of tests that may not have been necessary just because someone who sees him once a month for 20 minutes tells me he's not growing when he most obviously is to anyone who knows us. If he had given me any cause to worry, then I would have cut out the middleman (Plunket) and gotten him looked at and had every test at my disposal to find out what the problem was...not that Plunket thought I would I don't think, just kept implying that I was doing something "wrong" because he wasn't gaining how he was expected to. LOL

He's just a dot in the weight stakes(he was 7.6kg last week and he's 13 months). He's still off the bottom of the Plunket charts, but just back on the WHO charts. A baby who is true failure to thrive wouldn't gain at all, would probably be losing weight and is actually, from all I have read, incompatible with life because there are usually serious underlying medical issues.

So my "advice" ladies is watch the baby, the scale is such a small part of determining whether or not they are growing as they should that I tend to ignore it for the most part and it has meant life, unlike first time round has been a breeze and I have actually enjoyed Alex instead of worrying about how much he does, or doesn't weigh.

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/ecsmanagement/mch/childhealthrecord/growth/default.htm

not sure if this is of any help but it is what I have been using since moving to Aust.

I hear you! I'm sure with number two I'll look back and think I should have chilled out! You're completely right with the challenges of conflicting advice from the experts, trying to feel your way, learning to have confidence in your instincts which is based on gut not fact ... Being a mother really isn't easy

And I managed to TJ my own thread!

The consensus seems to be there's nothing NZ based.

The CDC ones from the US are normed on BF and FF babies - these are on the link that Verena gave us. I think they're the ones the hospital uses.

The WHO ones are more recent and are onlly on BF babies - this is the link

http://www.ohbaby.co.nz/baby/baby-weight-chart