Follow-up study of small-for-dates babies.
A group of small-for-dates full-term babies whose intra-uterine growth was followed by serial ultrasonic cephalometry were examined at a mean age of 4 years. Those children whose skull growth had begun to slow in utero before 34 weeks' menstrual age were more likely to have a height and weight less than the 10th centile. When the onset of growth failure had occurred before 26 weeks there was a lower developmental quotient at follow-up using the Griffiths extended scales. Prolonged slow growth in utero therefore seems to be followed by slow growth and development after birth.
D001724:Birth Weight; D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D002508:Cephalometry; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005333:Fetus / Q000502:physiology; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006128:Growth; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011262:Pregnancy Trimester, Second; D014463:Ultrasonography