What did you ped recommend for short stature?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone has to be toward the bottom of the height/weight charts. Also, puberty sometimes flips the script somewhat- not at all uncommon.

My DD was tiny from birth to age 11 or so. Consistently 20th% for height, barely on the charts for weight. We assumed she would be quite short but she is now 15 and 5’6”. She just grew and grew from ages 11-15. DH and I are 6’0” and 5’6” so she ended up around average-ish like us, despite being so small as a kid. Late puberty. Still extremely thin, though.

Have also seen a lot of kids who were always tall, and then just kind of stopped growing by middle school (ending up average to short-ish).

People are so confused about average heights. 5’6 F and 6’0 male are in no way “average-ish.” The average female height is 5’4 and average male height 5’9. 6’0 is like the 85 percentile.

[Anonymous]

I am short, both parents short, all siblings short. However, when I fell off the growth chart Ped referred us to Endo, and testing revealed I was just destined to be short. Fast forward 30 years and my sister, married to a tall husband, had a son whose growth also fell off chart. Went to an Endo and found out he has a heritable genetic mutation of his pituitary gland, likely from my father’s side of the family (father is only 5’ 1”). So, it doesn’t hurt to check. I am just short, like my mom and siblings. But my nephew had an issue that is treatable, so instead of being 5’1” like his grandfather, he might be 5’6”-5’8” like his uncles.

[Anonymous]

Hey, I'm the OP! Just stumbled on this on here again.

We took him to an endocrinologist and I'm glad we did - turns out he was actually in the 5th percentile (not 2nd; he wasn't being measured correctly at the ped) and she has no concerns and does not recommend growth hormone, which is great. Now I don't worry about it as much - he's likely to be short, but as long as he's healthy, that's ok with me. I do think it was worth checking out rather than wondering though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone has to be the 3%.

It doesn’t mean anything is wrong. There are posts at least weekly here about a mom wondering why her son is so short and what endocrinologist to see. The vast majority
of short kids don’t have a medical problem.

Good luck ruling things out, but don’t be at all surprised if there is nothing wrong.

This. Being short isn’t a medical problem and doesn’t need fixing. As PP said, some kids will be 99% and some will be 1%

Seriously! This “let’s pathologize everything” bs is going too far.
We are a short family - both my husband and I are 5’4” and my kids are on track to be the same. This is life. Deal with it.

+1

At 8, the online calculators are totally unreliable. Even a few years later, it's a guess, not a guarantee.

You answered your own question when you told us his dad's height.

DS was predicted to be 6'5" when he was 14. He's 18 now and he's 6'1". He hasn't added an inch in two years. Doctors aren't psychics and their guesses don't come with guarantees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone has to be the 3%.

It doesn’t mean anything is wrong. There are posts at least weekly here about a mom wondering why her son is so short and what endocrinologist to see. The vast majority
of short kids don’t have a medical problem.

Good luck ruling things out, but don’t be at all surprised if there is nothing wrong.

This. Being short isn’t a medical problem and doesn’t need fixing. As PP said, some kids will be 99% and some will be 1%

Seriously! This “let’s pathologize everything” bs is going too far.
We are a short family - both my husband and I are 5’4” and my kids are on track to be the same. This is life. Deal with it.

+1

At 8, the online calculators are totally unreliable. Even a few years later, it's a guess, not a guarantee.

You answered your own question when you told us his dad's height.

DS was predicted to be 6'5" when he was 14. He's 18 now and he's 6'1". He hasn't added an inch in two years. Doctors aren't psychics and their guesses don't come with guarantees.

Totally agree. My nephew was always predicted to be around 6’4, he was always like the 99 percentile throughout childhood. Tall parents. He hit puberty early and never grew after age 14. He is 5’11 now at 22 years old. His dad is 6’4 and mom is tall too, around 5’9. You really just never know.

[Anonymous]

When is it too late to start growth hormones?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone has to be the 3%.

It doesn’t mean anything is wrong. There are posts at least weekly here about a mom wondering why her son is so short and what endocrinologist to see. The vast majority
of short kids don’t have a medical problem.

Good luck ruling things out, but don’t be at all surprised if there is nothing wrong.

If you are average height at 5'4 and your husband is 5'8 I would expect your son to be short. If you average your heights, you get 5'6...It would probably take a miracle or for you both to come from tall families for your child to be as tall as your husband. I would be concerned for my child from a social standpoint for my child, but I also think you may need to accept that there is nothing wrong with your son.

What? That is not how it works. From the average of mom and dad you add 2-3 inches for boys and subtract 2-3 inches for girls.
If Op is 5’4” and dad is 5’8” they don’t should be 5’8”-5’9” and their daughter should be 5’4”-5’3”

Man I wish....mom 5'8'' dad 5'11''. Im barely 5'4'' my two brothers are 5'7'' and 6'3''. Genes are funny. We all have different colored hair and different colored eyes. Dirty blonde with blue, reddish blond with brown, and dark brown with green.

Somebody lying about the daddy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 4-11 aunt married her 6-2 husband. Daughter grew to 4-11. Son to 5-8. Genes are funny!

Not really this is pretty much what one would expect from this pairing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone has to be toward the bottom of the height/weight charts. Also, puberty sometimes flips the script somewhat- not at all uncommon.

My DD was tiny from birth to age 11 or so. Consistently 20th% for height, barely on the charts for weight. We assumed she would be quite short but she is now 15 and 5’6”. She just grew and grew from ages 11-15. DH and I are 6’0” and 5’6” so she ended up around average-ish like us, despite being so small as a kid. Late puberty. Still extremely thin, though.

Have also seen a lot of kids who were always tall, and then just kind of stopped growing by middle school (ending up average to short-ish).

People are so confused about average heights. 5’6 F and 6’0 male are in no way “average-ish.” The average female height is 5’4 and average male height 5’9. 6’0 is like the 85 percentile.

People just don't know their real height so many claim to be much taller than they are.

Even the medical assistants at the doctor's office can get it wrong.

I'd bet op is about 5'2' and her husband 5' 6' so her son reaching 6'4" makes since

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone has to be the 3%.

It doesn’t mean anything is wrong. There are posts at least weekly here about a mom wondering why her son is so short and what endocrinologist to see. The vast majority
of short kids don’t have a medical problem.

Good luck ruling things out, but don’t be at all surprised if there is nothing wrong.

This. Being short isn’t a medical problem and doesn’t need fixing. As PP said, some kids will be 99% and some will be 1%

Seriously! This “let’s pathologize everything” bs is going too far.
We are a short family - both my husband and I are 5’4” and my kids are on track to be the same. This is life. Deal with it.

+1

At 8, the online calculators are totally unreliable. Even a few years later, it's a guess, not a guarantee.

You answered your own question when you told us his dad's height.

DS was predicted to be 6'5" when he was 14. He's 18 now and he's 6'1". He hasn't added an inch in two years. Doctors aren't psychics and their guesses don't come with guarantees.

Totally agree. My nephew was always predicted to be around 6’4, he was always like the 99 percentile throughout childhood. Tall parents. He hit puberty early and never grew after age 14. He is 5’11 now at 22 years old. His dad is 6’4 and mom is tall too, around 5’9. You really just never know.

Fake news

[Anonymous]

The school i teach at has a lot of Hispanic and Asian kids. 5'4" is quite normal for the boys. It is the direction of the males in our country.

[Anonymous]

My mom is 5'1 and my dad is 5'7. My brother got to 5'10 miraculously. (Sister and I same as mom.) You never know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone has to be the 3%.

It doesn’t mean anything is wrong. There are posts at least weekly here about a mom wondering why her son is so short and what endocrinologist to see. The vast majority
of short kids don’t have a medical problem.

Good luck ruling things out, but don’t be at all surprised if there is nothing wrong.

This. Being short isn’t a medical problem and doesn’t need fixing. As PP said, some kids will be 99% and some will be 1%

Seriously! This “let’s pathologize everything” bs is going too far.
We are a short family - both my husband and I are 5’4” and my kids are on track to be the same. This is life. Deal with it.

+1

At 8, the online calculators are totally unreliable. Even a few years later, it's a guess, not a guarantee.

You answered your own question when you told us his dad's height.

DS was predicted to be 6'5" when he was 14. He's 18 now and he's 6'1". He hasn't added an inch in two years. Doctors aren't psychics and their guesses don't come with guarantees.

Totally agree. My nephew was always predicted to be around 6’4, he was always like the 99 percentile throughout childhood. Tall parents. He hit puberty early and never grew after age 14. He is 5’11 now at 22 years old. His dad is 6’4 and mom is tall too, around 5’9. You really just never know.

Fake news

?? No, this is true. It happens sometimes, just like short parents sometimes have a kid who is 6’3. Sorry you don’t like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, it’s the standard protocol for a pediatrician to refer you to a pediatric endocrinologist, often as PP mentioned to just rule certain issues out.

This is part of why health insurance is so expensive. No indication at all there is anything wrong with the kid but yes, go to an expensive specialist and run a bunch of expensive tests, just to see.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone has to be the 3%.

It doesn’t mean anything is wrong. There are posts at least weekly here about a mom wondering why her son is so short and what endocrinologist to see. The vast majority
of short kids don’t have a medical problem.

Good luck ruling things out, but don’t be at all surprised if there is nothing wrong.

This. Being short isn’t a medical problem and doesn’t need fixing. As PP said, some kids will be 99% and some will be 1%

Seriously! This “let’s pathologize everything” bs is going too far.
We are a short family - both my husband and I are 5’4” and my kids are on track to be the same. This is life. Deal with it.

+1

At 8, the online calculators are totally unreliable. Even a few years later, it's a guess, not a guarantee.

You answered your own question when you told us his dad's height.

DS was predicted to be 6'5" when he was 14. He's 18 now and he's 6'1". He hasn't added an inch in two years. Doctors aren't psychics and their guesses don't come with guarantees.

Totally agree. My nephew was always predicted to be around 6’4, he was always like the 99 percentile throughout childhood. Tall parents. He hit puberty early and never grew after age 14. He is 5’11 now at 22 years old. His dad is 6’4 and mom is tall too, around 5’9. You really just never know.

Fake news

?? No, this is true. It happens sometimes, just like short parents sometimes have a kid who is 6’3. Sorry you don’t like it.

NP here. Yes, this is my cousin too. My aunt and uncle are short (probably 5’4” and 5’8”, respectively) and my cousin is 6’5”.