Our obsession with infant growth charts may be fuelling childhood obesity
- Written by Rebecca Byrne, Dietitan and Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
Numbers on the scale have become a defining measure of an infant’s progress.Unsplash/Kelly SikkemaAsk any new parent how their baby is going and you will most likely get an update on recent weight gains.
Regular baby weigh-ins are a rite of passage, but many parents look back at this time with a deep sense of failure; when told their child...
