Growth charts for premmies

[Luzelle]

Hi ladies. I want to know if someone can send me a link to growth charts for premmies. It is for a friend who's little girl was born at 27weeks gestation. Baby is doing very well , just some info will be useful. Thanks in advance!

 

[lozzy21]

Preemies use the same growth charts that term babys do, they are just marked back to there adjusted age.

 

[AP]

^wss. We had a 27 weeker and the same term growth charts are used to begin with. There are special charts if they do fall off the term one though.

 

[Marleysgirl]

Our hospital used the normal growth charts.

However, our little boy Andrew was also very low birthweight, and I found that the World Health Org produces separate charts for low birthweight babies with growth curves below the 0.4th percentile; so I downloaded & printed one, and I kept a personal weight/size chart on that.

Found the linky ... they now call them Neonatal & Infant Close Monitoring (NICM) growth charts from 23wk gestation to 2 years ... about halfway down here: https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/growthcharts (printing on A3 is recommended!)

 

[Lottie86]

Ooo that chart is handy. If we ever get given a red book i might print those off and put them in as well as the standard ones. I got excited waiting for the chart to open as I thought Iona might be on a line but no she's still well below even the bottom one

 

[Marleysgirl]

Awwww, she's a little darling Andrew has managed to climb from below the -4SD to above the -3SD, so she will get there eventually!