ge for healthy children may here be followed. At birth the average
weight of a baby is a little over 7 lb and the length about 20 in. The
following are the averages for weight and height, taking the age in
years of the child at the last birthday:--

+--------+----------+---------+----------+---------+
| Age. | Height, in inches. | Weight, in pounds. |
+--------+----------+---------+----------+---------+
| | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys |
| | | | | |
| 1 | 28.7 | 29 | 19.8 | 20.5 |
| 2 | 32.5 | 32.5 | 25.5 | 26.5 |
| 3 | 35 | 35 | 30 | 31.2 |
| 4 | 38 | 38 | 34 | 35 |
| 5 | 40.5 | 41 | 39.2 | 41.2 |
| 6 | 42.8 | 44 | 41.7 | 44.4 |
| 7 | 44.5 | 46 | 47.5 | 49.7 |
| 8 | 46.6 | 47 | 52.1 | 54.9 |
| 9 | 48.7 | 49 | 55.5 | 60.4 |
| 10 | 51 | 51.8 | 62 | 67.5 |
| 11 | 53.1 | 53.5 | 68 | 72 |
| 12 | 55.6 | 55 | 76.4 | 76.7 |
| 13 | 57.7 | 57 | 87.2 | 82.6 |
| 14 | 59.8 | 59.3 | 96.7 | 92 |
| 15 | 60.9 | 62 | 102.7 | 106 |
+--------+----------+---------+----------+---------+

See also CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO; CHILDREN'S COURTS; CHILDREN'S
GAMES; INFANT; &c.

CHILDEBERT, the name of three Frankish kings.

CHILDEBERT I. (d. 558) was one of the four sons of Clovis. In the
partition of his father's realm in 511 he received as his share the town
of Paris, and the country to the north as far as the river Somme, and to
the west as far as the English Channel, with the Armorican peninsula. In
524, after the murder of Chlodomer's children, Childebert annexed the
cities of Chartres and Orleans. He took part in the various expeditions
against the kingdom of Burgundy, and in 534 received as his share of the
spoils of that kingdom the towns of Macon, Geneva and Lyons. When
Vitiges, the king of the Ostrogoths, ceded Provence to the Franks in
535, the possession of Arles and Marseilles was guaranteed to Childebert
by his brothers. Childebert also made a series of expeditions against
the Visigoths of Spain; in 542 he took possession of Pampeluna with the
help of his brother Clotaire I., and besieged Saragossa