Large and growing head circumference in 12 month old!

[andreae23]

Hi all!

After some thoughts on what you would do...

My little boy turned one last week. He's always been on the higher centiles for weight (80th) and his head measured in the 91st centile when he had his 6 week checks.

In October I randomly had a friend who's a midwife do his weight and head when she was over and when I plotted his head it was in the 99th centile. I googled it and got a bit worried by what I was reading so called the health visitor who said to come in. They measured it 1cm less than I did so the 98th centile and said nothing to worry about as he has no other symptoms. 2 months later at his 1 year check in n mid December it's grown another 2cm. And now we'll above the 99th. She said to come back in Feb to be measured again - not to worry but they'd keep an eye on it.

I measured it again and it's gone up another half cm in a few weeks. Not even sure how accurate all these measurements are;

He's a very happy little boy and always met milestones to date. He's very close to walking and has about 10 words he uses consistently which I think is quite a few for his age so I'm not worried about anything developmentally but it's niggling me that I should maybe try get him seen again before Feb or see my GP?

Anyone have any experience of this?

Thanks v much from a very anxious mum!

My ds always had a large head and often measured 99 percentile but was also in the high 80s /early 90s percentile for weight and height. (Anecdotally my DH was told by a Dr he had a relatively large head when being measured as part of a test for something else).

If he's happy and generally growing I wouldn't worry about it. It's different if there was any other symptom or indicators of a problem

Meant kindly - I feel if your DC had any real outlying health or behavioural problems you wouldn't be worried about his head measurements and in a year you probably won't think about this stuff again.