Where can I find a growth chart for a breastfed baby?
Ask a Health Visitor or a Midwife, they should have copies. I am a Breastfeeding Peer Supporter and I have a copy of the breastfeeding chart. Its not all that much different but on the bottlefed chart babies tend to to put more weight on it the early days so the growth rate goes up quite quickly, but the breastfed chart goes up at a steadier rate but both of them even right out to a steady line. A breastfed chart has more peaks and troughs ( hope this makes sense) As long as your baby is gaining weight, alert at times and healthy you have no reason to worry. Unfortunately its a Health Visitors job to be concerned that your baby is not following the growth chart and their responsibility to make you aware. So many women give up breastfeeding at this point. Formula is full of artificial calories and babies do gain weight faster but its the bottlefed babies that are overweight and not the breastfed ones being uderweight. One of our mothers had a fall out with her Health Visitor but she stu
