Yay for Jeanne Sager, who has written a fascinating essay for Babble
on a subject I have long wondered about: Those percentile charts that
are constantly mentioned each time we take our kids to the pediatrician.
Sager's
piece notes the anxiety many parents feel when their babies rank on the
low end of the spectrum for weight. She even mentions one case in which
a mother was told her baby's lack of pounds represented a "failure to
thrive."
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