- Growth Percentile Calculator - http://www.babycenter.com/growthchart/
Measure your baby's length, weight, and head circumference, enter the figures, and calculate an estimate of where your baby stands compared to other children his age.
- Newborns: Growth and Development - http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/pages/newborns.growth.html
Links to reviewed articles focusing on infant growth and development.
- Toddlers: Growth and Development - http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/pages/toddlers.growth.html
Reviewed articles on growth and development issues in toddlers.
- Speech and Language Development - http://members.tripod.com/Caroline_Bowen/devel1.htm
Ages and stages. What to expect as your child's communication skills develop and when to seek help. Authored by a certified Speech Pathologist.
- Keep Kids Healthy: Developmental Delay - http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/welcome/conditions/developmentaldelays.html
Discusses milestones, the causes of motor, language, social and global delays in development, and proposed course of action.
- How Children Learn - http://howchildrenlearn.homestead.com
Provides information and advice aimed at improving the future performance of children, starting before birth.
- Care of the Premature Infant - http://www.aafp.org/afp/980501ap/trachten.html
Monitoring growth and development in the premature infant: An article from the American Academy of Family Physicians.
- Babies are Conscious - http://www.eheart.com/cesarean/babies.html
Article by David Chamberlain, PhD describing research showing that babies are conscious before and during birth.
- The Brazelton Institute - http://www.brazelton-institute.com/
Focuses on the health and development of the newborn infant. Read about the Brazelton Scale, a comprehensive newborn behavioral assessment tool and view the organization's newsletter.
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