Height and weight of children - is a group of development, for which parents need to monitor constantly, no matter what age child. This will help prevent a variety of diseases in future including the scourge of our age - obesity.
But it should be remembered that weight norms and growth is not determined by a single day. To get the exact numbers must be for a minimum of six months to carry out measurements of the child and enter data in a notebook. And then averaging the data obtained, comparing with the general meaning in the table.
How to measure the growth of the child
If metering weight parents usually problems do not happen, then with the measurement of growth it happens sometimes with difficulty.
To properly measure the growth even without growthmetr not have to be a special person. Just put the child against the wall so that it is pressed firmly against it and make sure that the heels were too pressed. Ask your kid to stand up straight, with her hands down. Make a mark above the uppermost point of the head, and then a conventional meter, measure the weight obtained.