Are babies really born without kneecaps?

Factual Questions
1

I’ve heard it from a whole lot of people (uneducated, non-doctor types) that babies are born without kneecaps. I asked a pediatrician and she said that, yes, they are born with kneecaps and that the kneecaps are just undefined. I’m at my brother-in-law’s house and he swears that he also asked several pediatricians and they all said that babies do not have kneecaps.

So which is it?

2

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may97/861940964.An.r.html

First hit from the Google search “babies kneecap born”

3

Uh. Guess I was checking the wrong site. I don’t know what I was thinking, checking WebMD for, umm, medical information. Thanks. :slight_smile:

4

And guess what? The people with whom I’ve engaged in this argument are still saying, “See?! So they don’t have kneecaps!”

:rolleyes:

5

If female neonates are born with all the eggs(not quite fully developed ) the ovaries will ever need-let’s see one/month for 40 or so years, plus a lot more, it’s no big deal to throw in knee caps too.