The effect of IUGR after birth

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I was wondering if anyone has any links on how IUGR affects children as they grow up? I know I've read them in the past and my ex-iugr baby is quite typical but I don't seem to be able to find any when I want them!

TIA

DD (7) was IUGR. Her hair still won't grow much. What she has is lovely - blond ringlets but not the long hair all her friends have. Her milk teeth are/were tiny. It's too early to tell about her adult teeth. She is small compared to all her friends, bar one and the poor girl has a chronic condition (not sure what). On the other hand she is feisty, strong, ridiculously flexible (gymnastics) and doing fine at school academically and socially. She's not had more than her fair share of illness - probably fewer than little sister who was a gorgeously fat bonny baby.

My daughter's hair is the same, I didn't really think much of it. It didn't start growing until she was 2.5 and now it's most of the way down her back when wet but absolutely gorgeous ringlets the rest of the time, even my sister who straightens her hair says she's jealous. Very fine baby hair too.

She's very petite, scarily flexible (rhuematologist said she isn't hypermobile because of her age, she's just inside normal, but if she doesn't lose some of it as she gets older she might be classed as hypermobile then) and was late with her mobility milestones, which is connected to the flexibility. She was still a baby for a long time, at about 10 months if you picked her up she would still curl up like a newborn and was still a baby past her birthday. Her speech isn't great, she has expressive speech delay which I put down to nurseries treating her like the baby of the room rather than one of the eldest. She's now in a pre-school and her language has improved.

She eats like she is trying to fill her boots, but her 18mo sister is almost the same size as her now, uniform is funny because they dont go small enough so we have her in 3-4 with the elastic drawn in as much as it will go (not enough!) and the trousers are turned up to her knees! But she's one of the healthiest kids I know, apart from the constipation that her dad's family has given her