is there anyway that the doctor can tell if a baby is going to be a dwarf or midget or is this something that comes with age?
2006-10-20 19:33:04 · 6 answers · asked by pinkpuff 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
it can be detected early maybe around 3 months or less.
Dwarfism
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Dwarfism is a term applied broadly to a number of conditions resulting in unusually short stature.
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While dwarfism is sometimes used to describe achondroplasia, a condition characterized by short stature and disproportionately short arms and legs, it is also used more broadly to refer to a variety of conditions resulting in unusually short stature in both children and adults. In some cases physical development may be disproportionate, as in achondroplasia, but in others the parts of the body develop proportionately. Short stature may be unaccompanied by other symptoms, or it may occur together with other problems, both physical and mental.
There are many conditions and diseases that can cause short stature. Some of these conditions involve a primary bone disorder, namely that the bones do not grow and develop normally. These conditions are called skeletal dysplasia. Over 500 specific skeletal dysplasias have been identified. Of these, Achondroplasia is the most common, affecting about 80 percent of all little people. An individual with achondroplasia has disproportionate short stature.
2006-10-20 19:34:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I use to work at a children's hospital, and there was an adorable little girl there who was diagnonsed with dwarfism since she was born.
Also, 2 years ago I had a patient that both she and her husband were little people and their first child was of 'normal' stature and they were 98% sure that the child she was about to deliver would be as well because she had gone through genetic testing during her pregnancy.
2006-10-21 02:42:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They can tell by a blood test and size charts like the head, length, weight measurements done in infancy.
2006-10-21 02:41:28 · answer #3 · answered by AveGirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yea..... my firend had her baby abd thru the ultrasounds the doc told her that her baby was gonna be dawrfed.
2006-10-21 02:35:36 · answer #4 · answered by luscious_lips_051306 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yea, they can tell. By looking in its genes/dna.
2006-10-21 02:41:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it must have a genetic marker.
2006-10-21 02:35:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋