• Your breastfed baby has a different growth pattern than the baby fed with artificial milk for the first twelve months. But the chart used in your Red Book was made with artificially fed babies.

• Your Breast from Birth Growth Chart is ready to be inserted in your Red Book. Even if the feeding pattern changes, your centile chart will still be valid for monitoring weight gain.

Ask your GP or health professional to use your Breast from Birth Growth Chart instead of the one supplied for artificially fed babies in your baby’s Red Book

“What about the growth charts available for download on the Internet?”
You can download growth charts on the WHO website. But as per popular demand, Bebe Cannelle is still happy to offer you the Breast from Birth Growth Charts at a competitive price.
Many mothers find the British Breast from Birth Growth Charts an easy and convenient way to keep track of their breastfed baby’s weight for the first year. Ask us more about it.

“Is it a copy?”
Bebe Cannelle is buying the Breast from Birth Growth Charts from a medical printing company. Your Breast from Birth Growth Chart is NOT a copy. Bebe Cannelle is run by a (breastfeeding) mother of one with a strong sense of ethics.

Recto is Weight (kg) and Verso is Length (cm).

• Your Breast from Birth Growth Chart will put your mind at ease as mothers sometimes worry that their breastfed baby is not as heavy as an artificially fed baby.

• Breastfed babies tend to gain 600-650 g less in their first year than artificially fed babies, with the most marked differences seen between ages 3 and 9 months.
• But the breastfed babies met developmental milestones at similar ages to artificially fed babies.

“I’ve just spotted your growth charts, created to include prem babies and breastfed babies – wish I’d had something like that when my kids were young, since every trip to the weighing clinic involved me and sometimes the doctor reassuring the health visitor that yes, my babies were smaller than the (50s bottlefed baby) charts, but yes, they were feeding well and growing fine!” -Kate T., mother of two, Sussex, UK

• Your Breast from Birth chart includes preterm infants from 23 weeks gestation with the centiles printed in black.
• The new figures come from the British 1990 weight chart and reflect birth weight between 23 and 40 weeks gestation in British neonates irrespective of their method of feeding.
• Breastfeeding affects growth after birth but not before.

• Remember that a growth chart isn’t a test, where you are striving to get your baby into the 100th percentile.
• Babies grow at their own pace.
• Big, small, tall, short — there is a wide range of healthy shapes and sizes among them.

• In the event that formula or mixed-feeding takes over, expect the weight curve creep upwards from its breastfeed centile since, in general, these feeding patters cause infants to be heavier as they advance towards their 1st birthday.
• Remember that a breastfed infant can still veer upwards or downwards from a Breast from Brith centile.

• When at 52 weeks, you begin to plot weight on the next PCHR chart (1-5 years weight chart in the Red Book) remember that the centiles won’t butt join.
• Don’t let this centile “shift” confuses you: monitor the weight gain into the 2nd year and take appropriate action if it veers significantly upwards or downwards from the centile.

“Hello, I just wanted to say thank you for the great customer service! My parcel arrived this morning with the breastfeeding growth chart I ordered, and it was a lovely suprise that you added those free gifts. Much appreciated!” -Emma, Swffryd, UK

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