302 Where There Is No Doctor 2011
How to Read the Child Health Chart
The 2 long curved lines on the chart
mark the ‘Road to Health’ that a child’s
weight should follow.
The line of dots marks the child’s
weight from month to month, and
from year to year.
In most normal, healthy children,
the line of dots falls between the 2 long
curved lines. That is why the space
between these lines is called the Road
to Health.
If the line of dots rises steadily, month
after month, in the same direction as the
long curved lines, this is also a sign
that the child is healthy.
A healthy child who gets enough nourishing food usually begins to sit, walk,
and speak at about the times shown here.
Typical chart of
THE HEALTHY,
WELL-NOURISHED
CHILD
Walks 10 steps
without help.
Single
words.
Short
phrases.
Sits
without
help.
6 to 8 months
12 to 16
months
11 to 18
months
third year
In the healthy,
well-nourished
child, the
weight rises
steadily. The
dots usually lie
inside the lines
that mark the
Road to Health.