Re: KIM - growth charts

[Guest guest]

Hi Reah,

I'm going to jump in on this one too. Are you a member of MAGIC?

I strongly suggest that you go to their website

http://www.magicfoundation.org and become a member. It's only

$30.00 per year and you'll be able to ask them for a copy of the

CD's as well as a liberary list of all the RSS articles they have

which you can order the ones you need including RSS growth charts.

Leah

> First and foremost Kim you be safe!! I am watching Wilma on CNN

right now. And these guys are even going in!!! And good old

NEVER goes in!!! The only one still out there is Miles

O'Brien.....I love that guy but he sure does love to hear himself

talk!

> I have the CD from the convention, I had one mailed up to me. But

I didn't realize it did the BMI. I haven't had a chance to sit down

and input Adam's data.

> Also the stats I gave for his weight and height are from when he

was 12 years 8 months (back in June). Our next measurement date is

in December. But I guess having a BMI of 17.4 puts him a tiny

bit " over " weight?? Would that be a proper assessment? Imagine

that!! LOL I will wait until his next measurements before I worry,

he is looking way taller right now so he may have a BMI back around

16-17.

> Once I get the CD out and start to plot my data (I only record the

data from our endo. so I am fairly sure of consistency) if I have

any problems I will " holler " .

>

> Listen you stay safe (not, I'm sure, that you can read this right

now) But please once Wilma is gone and you have power again, email

us all right away and let us know you are safe.

> (PS Miles O'Brien just took a fly...the wind just sent him

spiralling so even HE is going in now!! BE SAFE KIM!!!)

> Take care

> Debby

>

> Re: Deb - growth charts

>

>

> Hi Deb,

>

> You are right. The weight for stature chart do not work for

the

> older kids. Do you have the CDs that were given out at the

> convention? These are great. You can enter all the data you

have

> for Adam over the years & it will plot his weight & height &

> calculate his BMI. I plugged in the data you listed in your

post.

> At age 9yrs, 7 months, his BMI was 15.1 and now it is 17.4. If

you

> then plot these BMI values on the boys: 2 to 20 years CDC

growth

> chart body mass index (BMI), you can see the percentiles. At

age 9

> years, 7 months, Adam was just below the 25th percentile weight

for

> height and now he falls just above the 25th percentile weight

for

> height. It took me a long time to figure out how to do this.

I

> asked several times on this listserve & nobody had answers. i

> finally figured out how to do it on my own. If you do not have

the

> CDs, you can still figure out Adam's BMi at various ages if you

have

> good data for his weight and heights.

>

> The formula to figure out BMI is: weight in kilograms divided

by

> height in meters divided by height in meters

>

> OR

>

> weight in lbs. divided by height in inches divided by height in

> inches times 703

>

> You should get a number somewhere between 12 and 20ish. You

plot

> this on the BMI chart by age and then you can where your data

fits

> in between the percentile lines. Thus, at age 13, if you want

him to

> be between the 10th and 25th percentile weight for height (Dr.

H's

> recommendation), you would want his BMI to be between 16 and

17.

> Hope all this makes sense. I know it is very confusing.

>

> You can email me privately if you have questions at

> capuano_k@p... If I don't answer you right away, it is

> because I lost power due to Hurricane Wilma. Unfortunately, I

am in

> the direct path & our weather should start deteriorating in the

> middle of the night.

>

> Kim C.

>

>

> > Well I finally found the time to get to the growth charts.

How

> > disappointing. The charts don't go high enough for Adam.

These

> > " weight-for-stature " charts only go to 120 cm and Adam is 138.

3 cm

> > and 33.2 kg (well he WAS back in June).

> > I was looking forward to figuring this out. Now if I go all

the way

> > back to when he was under 120 cm. (I have one measurement at

9

> > years, 7 months old) He was 117.9 cm and 21 kg that puts him

smack

> > tab in the middle of the 25th to 50th percentile.

> > So does that mean it's too much? Or just right? I was just

hoping

> > he would make the 15th.

> > Anyone have any thoughts on where I can get " bigger " charts

and/or

> > what it means to be in the 25th-50th percentiles?

> >

> > Deb

> >

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