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- From: mrp@world.std.com (Marjorie R Peskin)
- Subject: Re: Headsize boy vs. girl (Was: Head size (was: ultrasound exper
- Message-ID: <C1JqrM.D38@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <9301261611.AA10438@kocrsw06.delcoelect.com> <16B62B52E.BIOSEE@UKCC.UKY.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:21:21 GMT
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- In article <16B62B52E.BIOSEE@UKCC.UKY.EDU> BIOSEE@UKCC.UKY.EDU (Stephanie Edelmann) writes:
- >In article <9301261611.AA10438@kocrsw06.delcoelect.com>
- >c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) writes:
- >
- >>
- >>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?
-
- I'll just jump in here with my own control group, my BG fraternal twins.
- My son has a big head, and my daughter has a total pinhead. I don't know if
- its gender related, but it sure is funny to look at.
-
- Marjorie
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- >
- >Stephanie
- >
- >>Spiros
- >>--
- >>Spiros Triantafyllopoulos c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com
- >>Software Technology, Delco Electronics (317) 451-0815
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