From UCI
What exactly is a big baby, anyhow? Though new technologies, like ultrasound, let parents and physicians keep unprecedented track of fetal growth, it turns out that the standards and norms for this are at least three decades old -- and may be outdated or less applicable due to factors such as the mother's age, ethnicity or even where she lives. To modernize these measures and potentially alter in a major way the practice of obstetrics, researchers say, they're undertaking a two-year, four university study of thousands of white, black, yellow and brown moms across the country to better track fetal development.
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