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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I also have a small baby, who fell below the 10th percentile at 32 weeks, and I also am having no problems with the cord, placenta, etc. (The slow growth is most likely due to a heart defect the baby has). So I now know more about growth restriction and small for gestational age than I ever wanted to!

IUGR is just defined, technically, as any baby below the 10th percentile. And the standard of care for IUGR is to induce, because looking at straight statistics, IUGR babies don't do as well during natural labor or after 39 weeks.

In fact, most IUGR cases they recommend inducing at 37 weeks. Now, from everything I've learned from all the high risk doctors that have entered my life and my own research, most of that is true of IUGR caused by placental problems (cord blood flow, low amniotic fluid, etc). Not the sort of idiopathic growth restriction it sounds like you have. My doctor is willing to let me keep going as long as the baby is progressing (in actual growth, not just percentiles) and doesn't seem in distress. If you want a second opinion, I'd go see a maternal fetal medicine (MFM) specialist - they're really the experts in this sort of thing.

But just a note of clarification, there is such a thing as symmetrical growth restriction, and it's actually often worse than asymetrical growth restriction. [/quote]

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