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Cindy McCoy
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From: anonymous@obgyn.net [mailto:anonymous@obgyn.net On Behalf
Of WDMcIntoshMD@pol.net
Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 11:47 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list PREGNANCY-BIRTH
Subject: Re: Can anyone help me???
At Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Cindy wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>I had a level 2 US on Tuesday. I was 26 weeks pregnant and the babies head
>measured at 30 weeks. I was called the next day and asked to come back in
>today. The maternal fetal specialist did an US and found the same results.
>the doctor looked at all areas of the head an d saw no abnormalities. She
>mentioned that 90% of all babies will fall at the 50 percentile range.
From
>75-90 they become concerned and over 90 extremely concerned. Our baby is
at
>95. before the US brain damage was mentioned.
>
>I need to know if the brain appeared normal in all aspects does that mean
no
>brain damage was evident? Can the baby still be brain damaged with no
>abnormalities?
>
>My children and husband all have big heads. We are praying this is just
the
>case.
>
>Can you point us to someone that can answers these questions if no-one here
>can?
>
>Thank you.
>
>John and Cindy McCoy (and baby Cameron!)
I can imagine how concerned you must be, and I hope that everything will
be OK. Your doctors will be able to give you the most accurate
information about your baby's condition, but I do have some info on
statistics that might help.
Percentiles are widely misunderstood. Being in 95th percentile means
that your baby's head is bigger than 95% of all NORMAL children, and
smaller than 5% of NORMAL children. It does not mean that there is
necessarily something wrong. Certainly it is a red flag that needs
investigation, but the key is that there are plenty of NORMAL babies
that have heads as big or even bigger than the head of your baby. Good
luck, and let us know what happens.
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William D. McIntosh, MD, FACOG
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