Results from a study by the World Health Organisation show standard charts may overestimate how quickly babies should put on weight.
Researchers say the charts are flawed as they are based on studies of children fed on formula, who tend to put on weight faster than breast-fed babies.
The Child Growth Foundation said it had published charts for breast-fed babies five years ago and lobbied government to adopt them.
Chair Tam Fry said the onus was on the Department of Health to take urgent action. But a spokeswoman for the department said health visitors had access to the latest information about growth rates.
She said the Child Growth Foundation's new charts were based on a sample of exclusively breast-fed babies from one region, and that the department needed to ensure its charts were "representative of UK infants".
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