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  • Was Barack Obama born a miss-proportioned 'dwarf'?

    The 'Lucas Daniel Smith, Obama Kenyan Birth Certificate' indicates that Barack Obama was born a short, broad-shouldered, slightly-less-than-average weight baby, but NOT some improperly proportioned 'dwarf' as some 'forgery-promoting' individuals have claimed.

    The birth document lists the following measurements:

    Height = 18 inches (45.72 cm.)
    Weight = 7 pounds 1 ounce (3.203 kg.)
    Width Between Shoulders = 6 inches (15.24 cm.)

    The CDC publishes a series of Clinical Growth Charts, as linked below:

    http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/clinical_charts.htm

    The following information was obtained by reference to the above linked CDC page.

    According to the below linked chart, titled, 'Data Table of Infant Length-for-age Charts, Males, Ages Birth - 36 Months', Obama was born in the approximate 5.8 percentile regarding height (interpolating the data between the 5 and 10 percentile figures listed in the chart).

    http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/html.../lenageinf.htm

    According to the below linked chart, titled, 'Data Table of Infant Weight-for-age Charts, Males, Birth - 36 Months', Obama was born in the approximate 28.5 percentile regarding weight (interpolating the data between the 25 and 50 percentile figures listed in the chart).

    http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/html...s/wtageinf.htm

    The below linked article reports that a Mean Newborn Shoulder Width of 122.06 mm (12.206 cm.) was found for the babies studied. The standard deviation for the data was 10.50 mm. (1.05 cm.) Thus, Obama's reported shoulder width of 15.24 cm. was about 2.9 standard deviations above the mean. Normally, less than about 0.2% of newborn babies would be expected to have a shoulder width equal to Obama's at birth.

    I suspect that there was probably some error made in either measuring or reporting the shoulder width data on the Kenyan birth certificate. Nevertheless, he apparently was indeed born with rather broad shoulders. Since he was short and only slightly-less-than-normal in weight, I assume that his weight at birth went primarily into his upper body mass.

    Abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10426618

    Full Article: http://www.scribd.com/doc/135312086/...-Vol106-pp-589

    The 'Lucas Daniel Smith, Obama Kenyan Birth Certificate' is authentic regarding the birth height and weight data shown. I do question the unusually wide shoulder width data listed on the document and suspect that an error may have been made by the medical staff at the Coast Province General Hospital in either measuring or recording the data.
    Last edited by bsteadman; 05-28-2012, 05:12 PM.
    B. Steadman

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    Barack Obama’s width between shoulders. Dr. James Ang’awa, Shoulder Presentation and Shoulder Dystocia.

    Lucas Daniel Smith's Blog

    Lucas Daniel Smith
    4/11/2013

    Excerpts:

    Barack Obama’s weight and length (as a newborn baby) were record in 1961 on his Coast Province General Hospital, Mombasa, British Protectorate of Kenya, certificate of birth. Additionally, a measurement defined (on the document itself) as “width between shoulders” was also recorded.
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    Skeptics have long indicated variants of the following:

    1. “Width between shoulders” is not a measurement taken at birth.

    2. ”Width between shoulders” is a measurement which they’ve never heard of and, because they’ve never heard of it before, they believe that the birth certificate is somehow not authentic.

    3. Even if “width between shoulders” was a genuine structure of measurement baby Barack Obama’s is listed as “6 inches” and that is too large for a newborn baby.

    There have also been countless and innumerable supplementary speculations (reckless speculations) regarding the measurement which I wont waste time going into but, for example, there was one about “width between shoulder” being a measurement used only for animals and not for humans.

    As you may know, the doctor who delivered baby Barack Hussein Obama II was James Oyunga William Ang’awa.
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    Its should also be noted that Doctor Ang’awa lived in the same neighborhood, Upper Hill, in Nairobi with Barack Obama Sr. during the mid-to-late 1960s. (See Ogosia, Kenneth. “You are forgiven, judge tells her father’s killer.” The Nation. January 30, 2010.)

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    View the complete post at:

    http://www.wasobamaborninkenya.com/b.../#comment-4809
    B. Steadman

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