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[quote=Anonymous]OP again.  Thanks to all for the suggestions.  I think it will be a game time decision.

We've been told she's probably just constitutionally small (as opposed to IUGR) by our perinatologist and the fetal neurologist.  She's measuring between 5th and 8th percentiles in all measurements (head circumference, abdominal circumference, femurs, humerus, estimate fetal weight).  It's a very odd since DH was a normal size baby and is 6'2 (although rail thin) and I'm 5'8 and curvy and we were both sizable babies (DH was 7 something, I was 8 something) and all the babies in our families run average to large.  We're going for growth scans every 2 weeks and all my biophysical profiles every week (measuring baby's movement, making sure she has practice breathing movements, evaluating sufficiency of amniotic fluid) and my weekly dopplers (measuring cord blood flow, etc) have been reassuring.  We also recently had a fetal MRI (given that her little head is so tiny at 5th percentile) and we were told her brain looks perfectly normal, as does the rest of her body.  So we're hoping that she just took after my maternal grandmother or my maternal grandfather's sister (my mom's aunt), both of whom were just very tiny people - max 5'1 but with old age had shrunk to about 4'10.[/quote]

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