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- From: c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Head size (was: ultrasound experience)
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 10:12:35 -0600
- Organization: Delco Electronics Corporation
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- jbyrd@chpc.utexas.edu (Jan Byrd) wrote:
-
- > When I started looking around me, I could see that there's definitely a
- > range of head sizes in children (and indeed in adults too), and that my
- > own children were on the somewhat large-headed end of the range, and over
- > time the rest of them sort of "grew into" their head sizes. It didn't
- > MEAN anything (although a large headed baby is probably somewhat harder
- > to deliver than a small-headed one - sort of like trying to deliver a
- > bowling ball vs a grapefruit :-).
-
- True. we were wondering as our little one has a large head, though
- some of that is visual (born with 4-inch long hair :-)) and some
- reality.
-
- As far as percentiles go head size is in par with weight and height,
- all usually at 75-80% (she's getting big!). We asked the pediatrician
- for this and she said that couples with large heads tend to have
- children with large heads... Since both of her parents are large
- headed creatures (!) she said it's normal.
-
- Now that she's almost 5 months old her head is much more proportional
- to the rest of the body, i.e around the 50th-60th percentile. But
- looking back in the 12-15 babies in the nursery (make that nurseries)
- when she was born (we're talking assembly line deliveries) you're
- right, babies (and baby heads) come in all kinds of shapes and sizes.
-
- (including a PERFECT Saturday Night Live Conehead baby shown in a
- prenatal class video! We actually saw it born, lots of fun)
-
- Spiros
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- Spiros Triantafyllopoulos c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com
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