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Congratulations, you’re expecting! This exciting and sometimes nerve-wracking time can mean browsing dream strollers, finding fashionable maternity wear — and lots of doctors’ appointments.

Regular doctor checkups and tests during pregnancy are important for your health and your baby’s too. If you’re a pregnant person anywhere in the world, you’ll probably have your belly measured several times during your pregnancy.

As your belly starts to blossom, your doctor will measure your growing bump regularly with a measuring tape. This measurement is called fundal height.

Here’s more on what fundal height means and why it’s an important part of your pregnancy checkups.

Fundal height is a vertical (up and down) measurement of your belly. It’s the distance from the pubic bone to the top of your womb (uterus).

Your doctor might also call it the symphysis-fundal height (SFH). Symphysis is the scientific name for bones that are joined together, like in the pelvis.

Fundal height is always measured in centimeters. To begin, you’ll lay flat on your back on the exam table, just like you’re getting an ultrasound scan.

Your doctor will use a flexible measuring tape to measure the distance from your pelvis area to the top of your uterus. This is about where your belly slopes downwards after going over the highest point of your bump.

Around 24 weeks of pregnancy, the fundal height usually matches the number of weeks you’ve been pregnant. This quick measurement is not just a really good party trick —measuring the fundal height can help tell a few important things about your pregnancy:

• Your doctor will have a better estimate how far along you are in the pregnancy (gestational age).
• Your doctor can chart fundal height over time to make sure you’re gaining weight and your baby is growing consistently.
• Fundal height helps to show how large your baby is (fetal growth) because your bun in the oven is making that belly bump after all!

So if your fundal distance is about 26 centimeters (plus or minus 2 centimeters), you are probably around week 26 of your pregnancy. Of course the fundal height can’t give an exact number of weeks or show the exact size of your baby, but it’s a good estimate.

Measuring the fundal height is especially important in places where there isn’t an ultrasound machine available or if you’re at a checkup at your doctor’s office between ultrasound scan appointments.

The fundal height is used by doctors around the world to help check both mama’s pregnancy health and baby’s growth easily and quickly and without needing any expensive, high-tech equipment.

The fundal height is so important that researchers made an international formulaTrusted Source to help better estimate pregnancy weeks and baby size with this measurement.

The formula takes into account that measuring a pregnant person’s stomach won’t always be accurate, and some mothers-to-be might show more or have a bigger belly than others.

If you’re in week 25 of your pregnancy but your fundal height measurement estimates that you’re in week 28 or 29, don’t worry. There are several reasons why this might happen:

• You may have been pregnant earlier than you or your doctor calculated according to your missed period cycle or first ultrasound.
• Your baby might be bigger than average.
• Your body shape or type might just mean that your stomach is sticking out a bit more.
• You might have a full bladder or really need a bowel movement. Yes, both these things can sometimes make your stomach stick out about 3 centimeters higher!

If your fundal height is too long, your doctor will double-check the measurement and may also give you an ultrasound scan. Some babies are just longer or bigger than average.

If your baby is larger than other babies at that stage in pregnancy, it might be due to:

• Genetics: You, your partner, or both of you may have tall or large genes in your family that are passed down to your baby.
• Weight gain: If you’ve gained excess weight during your pregnancy or before pregnancy, your baby may gain more weight too.
• Diabetes: If you have gestational diabetes or another kind of diabetes, your baby might be larger than usual.

Sometimes fundal height is shorter than it should be and doesn’t match up with how far along your pregnancy is. There are several reasons why this might happen:

• Your pregnancy might have happened later than you or your doctor estimated. For example, you might estimate that you’re in week 28 of your pregnancy, but you’re actually in week 26 or 27.
• Your baby might be smaller than normal.
• Your body shape or type might just mean that your belly doesn’t show as much.

Your doctor may be more concerned if your baby is smaller than normal or is not gaining weight. A lack of weight gain in utero may lead to low birth weight.

Causes of small babies in the womb include:

• Genetics: You, your partner, or both of you may have shorter or small genes in the family.
• Genetic conditions: Certain chromosomal conditions can cause smaller babies early on in the pregnancy.
• Nutrition: Your baby may not be getting as much oxygen, blood flow, and nutrients as they should be.
• Uterine issues: A problem with the placenta might be limiting how much blood and oxygen your baby is getting.
• Mama’s nutrition: If you aren’t taking in adequate healthy foods, or have a body weight of under 100 pounds, baby may not grow as quickly as hoped either.
• Alcohol and drugs: Alcohol, cigarette smoking, or drug use can all affect your baby’s growth and development.
• Mama’s health: Your health matters for your baby’s health and weight gain. A number of conditions that you might have can affect your baby’s health and growth. These include:
  • high blood pressure
  • anemia
  • infections
  • diabetes
  • kidney disease
  • lung disease
  • heart disease

Checking your fundal height is just one way that your healthcare provider can check your pregnancy health and your baby’s growth and development.

It’s not always accurate, but along with ultrasound scans and other tests, measuring the fundal height can help keep your pregnancy and baby healthy.

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When it comes to dating, education, and earnings, is being tall more of an advantage, or is being short more of a liability?

1. Women prefer to date taller men; tall men attract more desirable partners. On average, women have a strong preference for tall men. In fact, women care more about dating taller men than men care about dating shorter women.

A study on women and men’s height preferences found that women are most satisfied when their partner was 8 inches (21cm) taller. Men are most satisfied when they are 3 inches (8cm) taller than their partner. Another study found that among men, 13.5 percent prefer to date only women shorter than them. But among women, about half (48.9 percent) preferred to date only men taller than them.

Relatedly, a study about height and human mate choice found that, on average, the shortest man a woman would date is 5 feet 9 inches tall. And the shortest woman a man would date is 5 feet 1 inch tall. In the same study, researchers found that 23% of men and 4% of women would accept a relationship where the woman was taller.

Finally, researchers have found that women married to taller men report being in better health, have lower BMIs, more education, and higher incomes compared to women married to shorter men.

2. People view short women and men as less attractive and less successful. In a paper titled, Height Stereotypes of Women and Men: The Liabilities of Shortness for Both Sexes, researchers investigated stereotypes about height. Researchers asked a group of participants to imagine a woman who was either “short” (4 feet 10 inches), “average” (5 feet 4 inches), or “tall” (5 feet 10 inches). Next, participants rated the women on various characteristics.

Participants rated both tall and average height women as more attractive and more successful than short women. But there was no difference in the ratings between tall and average height women. Participants also rated men described as “short” (5 feet 4 inches), “average” (5 feet 10 inches) and “tall” (6 feet 4 inches).

Participants viewed short men as less socially attractive, less successful, less physically attractive, less well-adjusted, and less masculine than both average and tall men. Average and tall men did not differ on those characteristics. But participants viewed tall men as more athletic than average (and short) men. The researchers state that “shortness is more of a liability than tallness is an asset.”

3. Tall people make more money. Economists call this the “height premium.” More height is associated with higher earnings. One study found that for both men and women, a 1-inch increase in height is associated with a 1.4–2.9 percent increase in weekly earnings.

Another study found that each inch of height is associated with earning nearly $800 more per year. This suggests that men who are 6 feet tall earn, on average, about $160,000 more over a 30-year career compared with men who are 5 feet 5 inches tall.

4. Tall people are more educated. This is likely one reason why taller people, on average, earn more. In fact, some researchers attribute the height premium to taller people obtaining more education. As a result, they enter higher-paying positions.

In the U.S., men in white-collar jobs are about one inch taller than men in blue-collar jobs. In the UK, the situation is similar: men in white-collar jobs are 0.6 inches taller, on average, than men in blue-collar jobs.

And it’s not just men. Women in professional and managerial positions are about one inch taller than women in manual positions. Interestingly, researchers have found education differences related to height even within families.

A study of 950,000 Swedish men found that among pairs of brothers, the taller brother was more likely to obtain a higher education. Men taller than 6 feet 3 inches (194 cm) were 2 to 3 times more likely to obtain a higher education compared to men shorter than 5 feet 4 inches (165 cm). The same study also controlled for year of birth, socioeconomic status, shared family factors, and cognitive ability. They still found a significant positive correlation between height and education.

5. Short men report being less healthy. A team of researchers collected data from 165,606 people in the U.S., including self-reported health. The scale contained five categories (“Poor”, “Fair”, “Good”, “Very good”, and “Excellent”). Results revealed that shorter men reported worse health than taller men. Furthermore, they also found that shorter men married women who reported worse health than women married to taller men.

As the researchers put it, “Short men were less educated, less healthy, had a higher BMI, and lower household income than taller men … women of a given height who were paired with shorter partners also tended to be less healthy, less educated, and with a higher BMI than women of the same height who were paired with taller partners.”

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