Not what we expected

During a prenatal ultrasound, we first found out that our daughter had some enlarged ventricles in her brain. The doctors indicated that they would check to make sure her head didn't measure abnormally large after birth which might indicate water on the brain. We were told this would be monitored very regularly. We never thought that her head size would ever measure small...but that's what is happening.

When our daughter was born, her head size was in the 50th percentile. Now, at three months, her head size is measuring lower than the 25th percentile. Our pediatrician says that it could be due to the medications that our daughter has been taking for the last couple or months. She also wonders if her carotid artery abnormalities may have anything to do with it. So, she wants to check into it further to make sure it's not due to something serious.

Our pediatrician called our daughter's neurologist. They discussed the milestones that our daughter has reached already (rolling over, laughing, tracking objects with her eyes, etc). Because her development seems typical, the neurologist did not think it was necessary to see her immediately. We already have an appointment with him at the end of the month, and he thought it would be ok to wait and see our daughter then.

Please join us as we celebrate the developmental milestones that our daughter is meeting on a regular basis!!! Please also pray that the doctors will have wisdom in the coming weeks to order any further tests that might help to determine the reason for her head to be so small.