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- From: BIOSEE@UKCC.UKY.EDU (Stephanie Edelmann)
- Subject: Headsize boy vs. girl (Was: Head size (was: ultrasound exper
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:53:00 GMT
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- In article <9301261611.AA10438@kocrsw06.delcoelect.com>
- c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) writes:
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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
- [stuff deleted]
- >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)
- >
- After I had my daughter (easy birth) I ran into a couple of people from
- my Lamaze class during the following weeks. It wasn't a statistically
- sigificant sample size, but it seemed as if every mother with a girl had
- had a child with a relatively small head, whereas all the boy's heads were
- rather large - some of them rather deformed, too. Any opinions out there?
- Are boys' heads usually bigger than girls'? Or was that just a strange
- coincidence?
-
- Stephanie
-
- >Spiros
- >--
- >Spiros Triantafyllopoulos c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com
- >Software Technology, Delco Electronics (317) 451-0815
- >GM Hughes Electronics, Kokomo, IN 46904 [A Different Kind of Disclaimer]
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