During pregnancy, you’ll see your bump get bigger as your baby develops inside your uterus (womb). By 40 weeks, the average baby weighs 3.619kg (7.98lb), and is about 51cm long from head to heel.

Parents are a competitive bunch. So when the pediatrician whips out a growth chart and ranks baby's height and weight in percentiles, it's easy to wonder if something's wrong.

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Others argue, however, that decisions about fetal growth shouldn’t be based on ethnicity or region of origin at all. Dr. José Villar, codirector of the Oxford Maternal and Perinatal Health Institute, ...

Kiserud T, Piaggio G, Carroli G, Widmer M, Carvalho J, Neerup Jensen L, et al. (2017) The World Health Organization Fetal Growth Charts: A Multinational Longitudinal Study of Ultrasound Biometric ...

Pregnancy — and the growing baby — change so much from week 0 to week 40. It makes sense that all pregnancy weight gain isn’t all one and the same. It’s nice to see these complexities ...

Dr. Kiserud explains, "The WHO fetal growth charts are intended to be used internationally based on low-risk pregnancies from populations in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America.

In the second trimester of pregnancy-- months 4, 5, and 6 -- your baby's fingers and toes are well-defined. Their eyelids, eyebrows, eyelashes, nails, and hair are formed, and teeth and bones are ...

Standing and working for long hours during pregnancy may slow the baby's growth, a new study from The Netherlands suggests. In the study, women who stood for long periods at work during pregnancy ...

Racial/ethnic standards for fetal growth: the NICHD Fetal Growth Studies. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology , 2015; 213 (4): 449.e1 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2015.08.032 Cite This Page : ...