Talk:Postnatal - Growth Charts

One of the issues was that USA standards may reflect mainly "bottle fed" babies as apposed to "breast fed" babies and that growth may differ (breast fed slightly lower) which may be of no long-term consequence. There may also be additional nutritional/environmental confounders, such as the rising trend in childhood obesity, in some countries.

It would seem obvious to say that development does not stop at birth. In fact many systems (cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, homeostasis) undergo significant changes at birth, and many others (neural) have not yet completed their development.

Note this current project focuses on prenatal development, so postnatal content is not as detailed.

This section of notes covers issues related to early childhood and development. It is sometimes easy to forget the many health issues that affect childhood development around the world. There are many links to external resources that relate to the many issues of this period of development.

Following childhood we have the early teenager, where hormonal changes trigger changes that lead to growth and reproductive maturation.