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Joseph Hagan, a clinical professor in pediatrics at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and the Vermont Children’s Hospital, when describing his interactions with parents about the size of their children. “There is no word I use in any given day more than ‘normal.’ Normal. If we must obsess over something, size is one of the few options.

Parents today like to worry, and babies, nonverbal and immobile, present us with a relatively limited range of things to worry about them. Though parental interest in baby size is nothing new, the heightened anxiety around it is. “No, really, he is huge!” I confess-exclaim, as if all 33 inches and 28 pounds of him didn’t make that patently clear. Our 11-month-old son is off the charts in weight and length, and even though his amplitude very much speaks for itself, I can’t help but announce it whenever he meets someone new. My husband and I are in the latter group. Most of us are somewhere between uneasy and distraught with how our babies plot on growth charts, no matter whether our children are petite or portly.

It’s the rare parent who is at peace with the size of their infant.