Don’t buy the baby , parents often encountered this kind of problem, is to choose good style, choose good color but don’t know how to choose the baby hat is appropriate, the hat net to share with you about the baby’s head circumference should be how to measure. Head circumference is reflected brain development, the size of the brain capacity is one of the important physical development index. Babies born in the first two years of brain development rapidly, head circumference growth also soon. Two years later the long head circumference speed gradually slow down. Birth head circumference average 34 cm, was born in the first three surrounded the latest monthly average increased by 1.5 cm.
When measuring head circumference to choose one of the end, with the left thumb will end zero fixed on the left side of the eyebrows on edge, and then close to the skin after the occipital nodules apogee around the head circumference of a circle back to zero, read value is head circumference.
The size of the head circumference also like weight, height as a normal range, and is not as long as some people think, that head big brain must be developed, the child clever, this is not correct. If a child was born head circumference normal about 34 centimeters or so, to 3 months head circumference quickly grow up to 42 cm, this is about to doubt whether there is water on the brain, rickets and other diseases. If a child was born head circumference than normal small, born around the back of the growth rate is very slow, and even stop growing, so want a highly doubt whether there is cerebral dysplasia, whether to have the possibility of microcephaly. Therefore, when the baby’s head circumference grow too fast or too slow, is not normal phenomenon, parents should be timely to take him to the hospital for further check.
Head circumference measurement methods:
Materials for
Material: end a root.
Specific steps
The first step:
Looking for the baby two eyebrows eyebrow bow; (note: eyebrow bow is eyebrows high)
Step 2:
Imagine two eyebrow around in a line, and find the center of the line,
Step 3:
End will be zero (0 cm part) on eyebrow bow the attachment point,Cheap New Era Sale, and so as a starting point, ready to start measuring head circumference;
Step 4:
Will end the eyebrow level around to the baby’s head;
Step 5:
Looking for the baby brain occipital nodules, and find the point of the nodules, this is the baby head circumference measurement, the highest point of the brain;
Step 6:
Will end around the baby hindbrain nodules neutral, and ready to soft feet around back forebrain;
Step 7:
Will end overlap cross, the number of intersections is the baby’s head circumference; ?Mother ready? Took the end, give the baby’s head circumference measurement.
The quantity of head circumference note:
1, measuring end cannot too soft, otherwise the measured data will be lost level.
2, measurement, gestures can’t too loose or too tight, otherwise the measured data is not accurate.
3, female baby if usually tied with small plait of words, must remember to plait scatter resurvey, otherwise is to let mom how to measure will not have a standard data appear it.
4, this is only one mother home, not as a final judgment, such as to get professional data, also please mother take the baby to special testing institutions, such as health care organization, son of the insurance, asked the doctor for measurement.
Baby’s head move about how to do?
The baby age small words, control his head is a very not easy, because the baby’s mood swings, it set on body, moving head, in this way, one can be measured data is a doubt. So, in this remind mom, measuring the baby head circumference, please try adjusting the baby’s mood, let the baby in a quiet state. Secondly, in the measurement, the movement wants fast, gentle, and try to control your baby’s head do not move.
