Why monitor children’s growth?

Monitoring a child’s growth also provides opportunities to give parents hopeful results of their children.

Motor Sequence

Physical development is orderly and occurs in predictable sequence. For example, the motor sequence (order of new movements) for infants involves the following orderly sequence: • Head and trunk control ( infant lifts head, watches a moving object by moving the head from side to side – occurs in the first few months after birth….

Child growth and development

Growth is an increase in the number and, size of cells as they divide and synthesize new proteins; results in increased size and weight of the whole or any of its parts.Can be viewed as a quantitative change. Development is a gradual change and expansion; advancement from a lower to a more advanced stage of…