These charts are important and simple to understand. When babies are chronically ill, they don't grow adequately. We doctors can pick this lack of growth up by plotting a growth chart.

In fact, its so simple that you can do it too.

Firstly, the chart you use depends on if you're baby is a boy or girl.

Secondly, there are 3 different types of charts. 

• A chart that tracks your baby's weight with their age.

• A chart that tracks your baby's height with their age. 

• A chart that tracks your baby's weight with their height.

As someone with no background of medical knowledge, heres what you can do:

1. Depending on your baby's gender, download the documents on the right.
2. Print them out. Plot on a monthly basis.

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How to interpret:

• After plotting a bit, you should have a line. This is your baby's trend line.

• Your baby's trend line should always fall between the 2 orange lines.
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• If it crosses an orange line, it means somethings wrong. See your doctor.

• If it crosses a red line, somethings seriously wrong. See your doctor urgently.

• If it plateaus for 1 or 2 months, its fine.

• If it plateaus for 3 or more months, somethings wrong. See your doctor.

• If it dips, somethings serious wrong. See your doctor urgently.

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Tips:

Don't round off.

Measure height along the back from hills to top of head.

Don't overthink. If somethings wrong, it'll be obvious.