What does that mean? I'm still worried! A. If your baby is "following the curve" of the growth chart, she's paralleling one of the percentile lines on the chart, and the odds are good that her ...

He says that physicians measure a baby's weight, height, or head circumference compared to others by using growth charts. A baby at the 99th percentile ... a normal pregnancy, with the mother ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My 31-year-old daughter is pregnant with her first baby. She is in her fifth month, and the doctor has told her that her baby is at the 75th percentile in growth. Can you please ...

We arrived for my 38-week ultrasound wondering if this was the day our baby would be born ... she pulled up a growth chart. I was in the fifth percentile. A week after my due date, my son was ...

Here's how growth charts work: Doctors plot the baby's measurements on the chart to get a percentile. The percentile shows how the baby is growing compared to other babies of the same age and gender.