Is her head too small?

[lilalove]

Hi all, my husband is convinced our 15 month old's head is too small, she looks in proportion to me and he has a small head so I think it is genetic but I am getting worried now too as he keeps going on about it! She is 10KG and 80cm and he head circumference is 48cm....any advice?

Have you got a chart for head circumf. in her red book? You could map her measurement onto that and see if it's within the normal range.

DD1's head when very young (last measured at 9 months) was on the 25th centile when everything else about her was very big. Her head is flattish at the back (as is DH's) and other babies' heads looked like huge lightbulbs to me. She is now 13, looks and is perfectly normal.

If you have any real worries, check with your doc or HV, but she probably takes after her dad.

Just check it against the chart. It will be in her red book or look online if you don't have a red book.

Oh, I just dug out a red book and if you've measured her correctly (and I've read the graphs correctly, which is a rash assumption), your baby's head circumf. is on the 75th centile, while her weight would be on about the 50th and height about 75th-91st.

Looks all right to me.

Having a quick look in the back of my red book, it looks like her head looks to be on the 75th and her weight/length on the 50th. So if anything her head is big?

thanks all, I do have a red book for my first daughter (we live in spain now and they don't track these details here) so I will dig it out and have a look. I seem to remember not making head nor tail of the centiles, pardon the pun!