№ 1General Pediatrics18 min read
Growth and development during infancy.
1. Big picture
Infancy is the period of fastest postnatal growth and neurodevelopment. In the exam, the examiner usually wants you to know three things:
- How to assess growth: weight, length, head circumference, percentiles, growth velocity.
- How to assess development: gross motor, fine motor, language/hearing, social-adaptive milestones.
- How to recognize danger signs: failure to thrive, abnormal head growth, abnormal tone, loss of milestones, delayed milestones, abnormal fontanelle, poor feeding, dehydration, abuse, chronic disease.
Clinically, growth and development are not checked once; they are followed serially. A single low percentile may be constitutio
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