... so tonight I was talking to my mate's very cool mum in the pub who now has two grown-up kids and is a well-respected sociologist.

So I hadn't seen her since having my 7 month old DD and we got talking about my BF experience and I gave her the full, rotten story about how I put so much pressure on myself and was beside myself when the midwives started going nuttso about weight loss and percentiles etc.

Anyhow, I just wanted to relay a story she told me that may reassure anyone who, like me, got a little obsessed with charts and percentiles. She said her DD was always tiny - way under 5% percentile so by the time she was two years old and not eating very much they were a little concerned. Especially, as academics, they put much trust in science and charts and norms etc. etc.

So off they go to a specialist who tells them that they can do a bone scan which will basically tell them whether their daughter is healthy and what height she will ultimately turn out to be. The results came in. They showed that their DD was healthy and not to worry and she was going to be around 4 foot 8 to 5 foot.

Anyhow, once their diminutive DD hit puberty she apparently shot up and is now around 5"8, so confounding both the percentile charts AND the bone scan.

Just wanted to share incase there's anyone out there worried about charts.