Just wanted your thoughts on the size of my 7 month old DD's head.
She was smallish at birth (2.7 kgs, 47cm, HC 34cm) probably due to the fact that she had a single umbilical artery. Very Cute though!!
Anyway, she has grown very well since then and is now at about the 40th centile for height, 65th for weight but her head is now in between the 90th-97th centile. I am concerned her head is growing too rapidly. She has now skipped over centile lines.
The only thing that is keeping me from worrying too much is that my head measures on the 90th centile and my husbands head is just over the 97th centile. So maybe her head is just genetically large. It is the rapid head growth that concerns me.
We skipped lines to, and as you can see from above post saw a paed who thought all was ok. I must say I do feel better that has now been checked out so if you are really concerned maybe ask opinion of maternal child health nurse or similar and see what they think.
Thanks,
I just googled rapid head growth in babies and all these studies on rapid head growth linked to Autism came up. Suddenly I'm worried! She is meeting all of her milestones, but she can only roll over from tummy to back, and doesn't really babble, but makes lots of sounds and is starting to make consonant sounds. She doesn't appear to have any signs of autism , she is very interactive and happy. Hopefully its just another one of those wierd studies that only apply to 0.0001% of the population!
See your GP, get her checked out, and get a referral to a paediatrician. Hopefully, all will be fine, but it will help set your mind at ease if you get it checked out.
hi hun, its hard not to worry isnt it, go to ur GP if u concerned.
a friend of mine had her MCHN panic and sent her and bub to their gp to get referals for scans and an mri because his head was growing so quickly.
The gp measure his brothers heads, mums head and dads head, had a giggle to himself and said they all had large heads and this bub is the same!
He still was sent for a scan just in case but it all came back fine, he's just got a boof head!
If your DH has a big head, then you daughter probably will too. She'll most likely grow into it. Both DH & I have big-ish heads... not looking forward to birth!
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, she is very interactive and happy. Hopefully its just another one of those wierd studies that only apply to 0.0001% of the population!
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