Bigger the Baby, the Smarter the Baby?
I should forward this story, Birth Size May Affect School Exam Results in Teens, on to my mother as she used to like to remind me that I was an enormous baby. Now I can point at this and say that's why I'm so darned smart. Her pain was my gain. Maybe I'll send her some flowers too.
And to head off the question before its asked, yes, I was a very, very large baby. I was 22 inches long and 11 pounds 2 ounces at birth. Born nearly two weeks late on the 11th of September, two weeks after Woodstock and 9 months and nearly two weeks after New Year's Eve. I used to rib my mom and dad that I was a drunken mistake on New Year's Eve 1968. And who knows? Maybe I was.

At least it makes for an interesting story.