Talk:Infant growth and development

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Checklist last edited by	Versuri 13:49, 15 April 2007 (CDT)

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writing it rough, outline should be self-evident. This is aimed to be a guide for parents that is accurate enough for a pediatrician to use as a reference. Nancy Sculerati 15:31, 14 April 2007 (CDT)

Pelvic size

To address one of the concerns raised by Nancy on my talk page, (expressing the idea of the mother's narrow pelvic size when giving birth), I suggest the following change. In this sentence:

• That means that big headed babies are born to mothers with pelvic structures adapted to walking upright, and if both mother and baby are to survive the birth process, that means the baby's brain is not fully developed in size — or complexity — at birth.

I suggest inserting "the relatively narrow" before "pelvic structures", to give:

• That means that big-headed babies are born to mothers with the relatively narrow pelvic structures adapted for walking upright, and if both mother and baby are to survive the birth process, that means the baby's brain is not fully developed in size — or complexity — at birth.

(Also inserting a hyphen in "big-headed" and changing "adapted to" to "adapted for".) I was going to also suggest moving the paragraph beginning "Even with the relatively small head diameter of the newborn," to before the previous paragraph, to move it closer to the mention of pelvic opening size, but I see that it flows very nicely into the paragraph after it, so that would probably not be a good idea. --Catherine Woodgold 15:18, 15 April 2007 (CDT)

Catherine, I think your change may be excellent, but perhaps we can hold off till more of the article gets written, and then -depending on overall lengtg, I'd appreciate your input (and others) from start to finish-did put "relatively" in there. Nancy Sculerati 20:53, 16 April 2007 (CDT)