A baby's height can depend on the month of birth, with the tallest babies being born in the spring and autumn and the shortest entering the world in december.
The finding comes in a study published in the lancet medical journal, and supports an earlier study linking the month of birth to height.

The study involved 1,166,206 children born in denmark between 1973 and 1994. The country's national birth registry holds records on how long babies spent in the womb and their height and weight at birth.

It showed that babies born in april were on average 2.2mm taller than those born in december.

Those born in midsummer were also shorter than spring and autumn babies
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