Estimating kids height
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Anonymous
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I read somewhere you take girls height at 2 and double it but boys height at 2.5 and double it.
For those of you with older kids did this math actually work out? My son at 2.5 was 39" tall. That mathematically would put him at 6'5" - which doesn't really seem possible since DH is 5'10" and I am 5'7". Although we do have tall genes in the family (DH's uncles and my brother all well over 6' tall). DS is both big and tall. At 2.5 years old he was 39 pounds and 39" tall and wearing a size 10/11 toddler shoe. |
Anonymous
| I think it's a fine population-wide estimate, but may not be accurate for all kids. Mine was at the 75th percentile until she shot up between age 2.5-3, and has been at the 95th percentile since. She hasn't hit puberty yet, so time will tell, but likely she'll be closer to the 95th percentile range as an adult (5'8"-5'10"). |
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Anonymous
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By this math, my daughter should have been 5'4". She topped out at 5'0".
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Anonymous
How tall are her parents? |
Anonymous
I think these things have a pretty big margin of error so like +/- 4 inches. Total crapshoot. |
Anonymous
| Does it matter? Nothing you or your child can change. Obsessing with how tall they will be is as weird as obsessing with how big their penis will be. |
Anonymous
Op here - of course it doesn’t really matter I am just curious since I have never lived with growing boys and am interested to see how much their grow and eat during their teenage years! Right now my 2.5 year old eats approximately double his older sisters, he is exponentially larger than them and growing way faster. |
Anonymous
A lot of this events out over time. I know some small parents who had huge babies and toddlers, but the size disparity didn't last and the kids ended up at about where you would expect. |
Anonymous
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My DH is 6’5”. His mom is 5’8”, his dad is 5’11” and everyone else in both families is SHORTER than that. His sister is 5’5”.
He literally came out of nowhere in the genetic lottery. Height can be strange! |
Anonymous
Also size doesn't always correlate to appetite -- I know incredibly small/skinny teens who eat four times the amount larger teens do. Genetics plays in to metabolism as well. I do get the curiosity -- I have two large kids (always 90+ percentile for height) at 1 and 3 and am really curious to see how they grow up. My family is very tall, but their father's is short. |
Anonymous
| I have 2 tall young adult sons. I never had a pediatrician predict their ultimate adult height. They ended up being fairly tall. I suspect it’s a guessing game. |
Anonymous
| Why do people try and calculate this? It doesn't matter, it doesn't always work out the way calculations predict, and you can't control it. |
Anonymous
| Didn't work for our kids - both are taller than original estimates, son by 2 inches, daughter by 3 inches |
Anonymous
| As long as the pediatrician is happy, I’m happy. |