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I need some help - I just made my first baby hat and followed the instructions explicitly in terms of sizing for a newborn (it's a tube that's gathered at the top so it's not worked in rounds, and the instructions simply say to repeat rows 3 and 4 until you reach between 10-12 inches). I finished it and, well, it fits my little girl's tiny doll head just perfectly, but there is NO way it's going to fit on a newborn head.
I tried to do some searching and I'm getting mixed messages on how to size a newborn hat. One site says to aim for about 12 inches for a newborn, but that's only 30.5 cm. One said that the average newborn head circumference is 35 cm. My twins were born at 37 weeks and fairly tiny but their heads were 33 cm, so I'm imagining a full term newborn has to be bigger than that. I know all babies are going to be a bit different but I'm figuring there has to be some rule of thumb!
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