Big head (98 percentile)

[MimiDaisy11]

I’ve been given an appointment to see a paediatrician because my son has a big head. He’s 8 weeks old and measuring 98 percentile for his head although he’s also got a big body and is 92 percentile for length. I’m hoping that just means he’s just generally big rather than anything wrong. I don’t notice any developmental issue. He can follow you or an object around with his eyes for example.
Anyone else had this with their baby? How’d it go?

My son was on the 99th centile from birth, in all his ultrasounds his head also measured large. The doctor at his six week check noted it and told us to come back in two weeks so he could measure it again and make sure it wasn’t growing off the percentile curve. From that moment on I obsessed and googled about what could be wrong and requested an appointment with a paediatrician myself. At that appointment they noticed my husband had a big head (also in the 99th centile) and that it was probably that big heads run in the family! My son is six now and absolutely fine . I also have a daughter who has a large head too, which again was brought up at her six week check but I didn’t panic at all this time. Both my children are very tall for their age so they don’t look out of proportion or anything, although when you see them with kids their own age you can sort of see the difference. I hope all goes well for you and your little one

Thanks for the reply. I hope we’ll have the same thing. We’re both taller than average so hopefully it is just that he’s big and nothing more

Two kids here, one 99th percentile since very little and one well over 99th 😬 neither are tall 20th and 50th centile for length. It's genetic as far as I can see, surprises you're getting referred for that alone.

My 3 year old has a massive head bless him (for context, this summer he was wearing an age 8-10 hat) but it was never picked up on by a doctor. His daddy also has an enormous head so it must be genetic. It definitely looks more in proportion now than it did when he was a baby and so far he seems to be developing absolutely fine (I am a little worried about how we are going to get school jumpers over his head next year though!).

Thanks for replies.
I’ve had my appointment with the paediatrician and it’s all fine