Baby Growth Chart

Posted on March 11, 2009
Filed Under Health |

It has been a long time ago since I put big attention on my baby’s growth. Questions like is my baby growth normally or how is my baby growth compared to others always crossed my mind. Based on parent’s experiences, this kind of worries are shown up when they have baby for the first time. And when they got their second child, they won’t be as worried as before. The most popular tool or references used by many parents to monitor the growth of their children is the baby growth chart where the chart will tell any parents the position of their children growth compare with normal children. There is a short information about those things I read in kidshealth.org site.

The first time I had a baby, I didn’t use excel as a tool to monitor and track my baby’s growth. I just used a weight and height chart written in pdf and find the position of my baby in those charts. But, this time, I think to make a tool in excel will be more useful for new parents so they can record their babies growth and put it in chart precisely. This thought came up because a friend of mine asking me whether I can make a growth chart for his baby. So, I made it for him. His baby is a boy, so I made a boy growth chart. So, if you have a girl, you cannot use this chart as your reference. But, if you need passive charts that you can use for your girls, you can go to USA Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website where I took the reference growth data for this spreadsheet. The website also provide complete information regarding growth charts. Because of the data is based on USA data, basically this is a USA baby growth chart. But, you still can use it eventhough your baby is not American because the growth trends is general.

This excel spreadsheet is consist of three worksheets with description as follows :
- one baby information worksheet, worksheet where you have to input your baby birth information and also as a record data sheet for his weight and height until his age reach 3 years old,
- one height chart, a worksheet where you can see the progress of your baby’s height, compared to other babies, and
- one weight chart, a worksheet where you can see the progress of your baby’s weight, compared to other babies

In baby’s information worksheet, you have to input :
1. Your baby’s name
2. Your baby’s birth date
3. Your baby’s birth weight (in kg), there is a weight converter box that you can use to convert your baby’s weight from pounds to kilogram if your baby’s weight data is not in kilogram
4. Your baby’s birth height (in cm), there is a height converter bos that you can use to convert your baby’s height from inch to centimeter if your baby’s height data is not in centimeter.

After inputing your baby’s birth information, you can start tracking your baby’s growth by periodically filling the weight and the height of your baby at your targeted date in blank light green column. I put some samples there for your guidance, you can erase it to start tracking yours. The data you input will give you direct result on percentile information in the column next to weight and height column and also will trigger the chart in other sheets to draw your baby’s growth line.

Before erasing those samples, you can switch the worksheet into height and weight chart worksheet. You can see the bold black line with your baby’s name as its legend that will change based on your data input. You can see the sample picture below. You can print it, or you can also change the layout and the look of this chart using excel chart menu.

If you still need more information regarding this spreadsheet, just leave me a comments. Finally, I have made chart for both boy and girl babies. But, I still leave the boy version only here.

You can download the excel spreadsheet for boy only here.

If you need the excel spreadsheet for both boy and girl, you can download it here.

You can read and download my other templates below :

Tags: baby boy, baby girl, baby growth tracker, baby height chart, baby height tracker, baby weight chart, baby weight tracker, boy growth chart, female growth chart, girl growth chart, growth chart, growth chart monitor, growth tracker, height chart tracker, male growth chart, weight chart tracker

Comments

44 Responses to “Baby Growth Chart”

Hugo Aguilar on March 19th, 2009 2:42 pm

Thanks for sharing this wonderful template. I wish I had this tool a few years ago. I was really looking for a tool or a template that could track all my boys height and weight on a weekly basis and compare one another, that would be something cool to have. I am really not to concern about their percentile, I could care less if they are going to be taller or shorter compare to the population. On the other hand, I would love to know (and the boys too) if Justin was taller than Diego or Jordan at a certain age. The longer it goes by, the more data I am wasting. Hopefully I can figure this out soon. I appreciate your post…
admin on March 29th, 2009 2:52 pm

Thanks for your input Hugo. I will think about it.
alan on April 1st, 2009 4:59 pm

Could you provide the password for the table data? I would like to modify the template for my daughter - I can provide the updated template when complete
Suraj Mukatira on April 2nd, 2009 9:25 pm

Excellent Job. I have been looking for exactly something like this!

Good work

SM
Eva on April 14th, 2009 5:57 pm

Great! It’s all that I was looking for lucky I’m gonna use it for my son. I just wish I could change the colors.
AQ on April 20th, 2009 12:49 am

This is great! Really wish I had this for my son a few years ago - am tracking my daughters stats now - a female version would be fantastic:o)
derek on May 3rd, 2009 11:52 am

This is excellent thanks.
Any chance you can let me unlock this so I can convert it all to pounds.
It would really help.
Cheers
admin on May 9th, 2009 2:08 pm

@AQ : Female version is available now

Cheers
AQ on May 17th, 2009 6:58 pm

Thank you, thank you - this is so super!!! Great job!
sim on May 18th, 2009 8:48 pm

Hi,
I’m thankful for you for putting out this stuff. Would please provide me the password so that I can alter it accordingly (Girls version). Thnaks
Harry Monroe on May 25th, 2009 1:26 am

Just one question, do you think it’s important to pay for a good brand name monitor or will a cheap one do the same job?
Jenny Moyle on June 10th, 2009 6:09 am

I think this is really great. I have been trying to create the same thing but found the excel programming too difficult. WELL DONE!

Will you be doing something similar for the other age groups (ie 2 - 18 year old). I personally would find this helpful as I still check my kids growth every 6 months.
Arif Rahman Hakim on June 22nd, 2009 2:23 am

Thanks a lot…..
Mrs Top Monkey on July 3rd, 2009 4:20 pm

Thanks for sharing the template… great job!
Kristin on July 8th, 2009 9:25 pm

I love the spreadsheet, thank you! One request though would be to have the exact percentile rather than rounding it to 5, 10, 25, etc. It’s a little deceiving when 9th is rounded to 5th. or 24th to 10th. As others have requested, if I could have the password I could try to alter this myself. Thanks so much.
Jenna on July 16th, 2009 4:58 pm

Thank you for sharing… It is really great!
Andre on July 21st, 2009 8:37 pm

Awesome tool! This is almost exactly what I was looking for - one drawback is the rounding of the precentile, our baby girl is steadily making progress from the 10th to 25th, she is now at the 22nd, but all that is displayed is that she is at the 10th. The only way I know that she is making progress is by entering the date in the refernce box.
Couple of suggestions:
1. Display exact precentile for each row input
2. Provide an overlay of the babys’ progress over the actual growth charts

you know if you convert this to a iphone app you could make a few buck too…

Thanks again…
Thomas on July 24th, 2009 5:29 pm

Hi, I am using Excel 2007 at home. On another Laptop I use Excel 2003 -> Everything is great. BUT: On Excel 2007 the graph tabs / Sheets are empty. Dunno what’s wrong. Any idea? Rgds, Thomas
Siri on July 24th, 2009 8:13 pm

Hi

Thanks for sharing, this was a great tool, and I’m the happy Mom of a 90 percentile child ;-). I’ve been looking for a tool like this, and find it very strange that the many baby sites don’t have it allready.

Only one problem - I share the same trouble as mentioned by Thomas. I can’t see the graph tabs - only the first tab is available.

Thanks again
Thomas on July 24th, 2009 9:10 pm

Hi all, here we go … it seemed to be a “printer driver error” in my case - believe it or not! The link, which helped me was: http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/showthread.php?t=314843 — hope it might solve also your issue!
Cheers, and (I forgot this initially): THANK YOU FOR THIS TOOL! It really helps - we need to keep track of our boy in order to control a proper gain in weight.
Courtney on July 26th, 2009 12:38 am

I LOVE this and I actually have another one that a doctor made that also includes the head circumference on it as well as for both girls and boys.
I am looking for one though that has the weight for length on it. I really need this feature!
adithi on August 4th, 2009 8:08 am

i wanted to know the actual weight and highet during the period of 2 YEARS OLD BABY
Ann on August 18th, 2009 3:31 pm

I was looking for something just like this-it’s great! The only issue I have is that it’s in kg and cm as opposed to pounds and inches. I know you have the conversion calculator attached but, when looking at the graphs themselves over time, I can’t convert in my head-it would be great if you could make this excel program in pounds/inches. Please?
Teebo on August 19th, 2009 10:20 pm

Great tool, really useful have been searching everywhere for such a template as with the little one doing this from scratch as you know takes time. Would you please be kind enough to send me the password for the boys and girl version - I would like to add in head circumferance and as some of your other posters convert everything to pounds and ounces.

Many thanks again
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vijay on September 4th, 2009 2:55 pm

its great…

can I have the password to unprotect the sheet please
Concerned Mommy on September 10th, 2009 4:11 pm

Thank you so much for this spreadsheet! I was searching for something that would allow me to keep track of growth. Wonderful tool!
Becky on September 21st, 2009 4:19 am

This is a great tool. Can I please have the password to unlock it? Thanks!
Lisa on September 22nd, 2009 6:02 pm

I am thrilled to find this spreadsheet. I saw some other comments about changing the chart to lbs and ounces. How can I do that? And how can I get the percentages to not round up or down? Thanks
Ash on September 24th, 2009 4:40 pm

This is an excellent one!! Thank you. The percentiles are not getting populated in row 5 onwards. Can I have the password please to copy the formula from the previous row.
Susan on September 29th, 2009 8:34 pm

also looking for the password so I can adapt to provide percentile (not rounded)
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Elisa Greene on October 21st, 2009 8:31 pm

I accidentally left out some dates and then wanted to insert them later but could not. I tried to cut and paste but the Excel worksheet is password protected. Would you please share the password with us? Thanks so much for this!
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Ülkü on December 20th, 2009 3:56 pm

Thank you very much this is exactly what I wanted for my little girl!
Quynh Kieu on December 26th, 2009 6:07 am

Please give the password to unlock the excel for posting the numbers to track the baby.
Thanks for the good work.
Wendy on December 31st, 2009 11:04 am

Great tool! Could I please have the password to unlock the protected spreadsheet. Thanks!
Le Van on January 2nd, 2010 11:57 pm

Great template. Could you please share the password to unlock the table. Thanks
Umpa on January 10th, 2010 6:29 pm

Thank you very much!! it is exactly what I am looking for!

We just got our first son a month ago, and now I can keep track of his development!! Thank you very much
Freddy Hendradjaja on January 31st, 2010 4:34 am

Hi,
Thank you very much for this baby growth chart. we are trying to find child growth chart issued by World Health Organization. Are your data using the WHO or other source?
Our son, Radi, 4 months old, lags behind his supposedly weight curve, using WHO child growth standard.
Can we use your chart or can we modify it? do you know where to get the data for WHO child growth standard? we only got the .pdf file but not the data to create the graph.
Thanks very much.
Ted on February 8th, 2010 3:30 pm

Can I have the password to unprotect the cells please?
Ted on February 8th, 2010 7:16 pm

My 2 year old son has fallen off of the growth chart in terms of weight and I’m trying to write an appeal to the insurance company as they will not cover the nutritional suplements that were recommended by his doctor. I want to include the chart in my presentation/appeal in order make the case for insurance coverage as the supplements total almost $200 per month. Of course, I am and will continue to provide my son with the supplements regardless of the cost. However, I would like to make some material changes to the spreadsheet for the purpose of making my case, change the unit of measurement, customize the chart a bit and generally polish it up to fit into a PDF’d PowerPoint presentation. Can I please have the password so that I can make these minor changes. I will not claim authorship of the spreadsheet and will make appropriate acknowledgements to the orignal source and cite my own changes to the document. Please reply to my email above. Thank-you for your time.
Shelli on February 13th, 2010 8:42 pm

Hello- please share the password to unlock the sheet. Thanks!
Mahesh on February 21st, 2010 1:30 pm

Great Work !!!