Image or reality: why do infant size and growth matter to parents?

recommended that a discussion is needed to decide whether FTT still has any use to describe paediatric undernutrition of different types.7 The term is certainly not useful to define the range of normality in early growth.Professors Wright and Weaver in their Perspective suggest that the views of healthcare professionals should be systematically sought, now that we know the lay view on infant size and growth.4 As a starter, perhaps the readership can be encouraged to submit alternative terms to FTT to define what paediatricians recognise to be the healthy infant who is just regressing to the mean or is weight faltering.For my part, it may all just be a case of weight adjustment.