Growth Monitoring

“GROWTH” is an increase in size of body and organs referring to the physical maturation of the body. It is a continuous process starting before birth to 18 – 20 years of age.

There are many factors that help the growth of a child. Early identification and prevention is best to ensure a normal healthy growing child :

• Mother’s habits like diet and exercise, pregnancy supplements, weight gain, harmful drug intake without doctor’s prescriptions
• Mother’s diseases like diabetes, hypertension, infections, etc.
• Twin and other multiple pregnancies
• Mother and baby hormone levels
• Gap of more than 2 years between two pregnancies
• Hereditary and genes (e.g. short parents)
• Social and cultural malpractices
• Poor nutrition (Insert nutrition page link)
• Recurrent infections in a child
• Poor vaccination history (insert vaccination page link)

It is important to consider the above factors and monitor the growth of child at regular visits to a paediatrician. Periodic monitoring helps pick up even the slightest of abnormality at an early stage.