Tiny Teen

[Anonymous]

It may or may not be too late for treatment.
Google - Idiopathic Short Stature and see if he might fit the definition.

I would not wait 6 months but would pursue testing right now.
You need to find out if his growth plates have closed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It may or may not be too late for treatment.
Google - Idiopathic Short Stature and see if he might fit the definition.

I would not wait 6 months but would pursue testing right now.
You need to find out if his growth plates have closed.

For a boy who is five foot six and hasn't gone through puberty yet? Really?

[Anonymous]

Just for some perspective, DH is 5'3" and life is not too terrible. He married a short woman (5') and is a successful professional with two awesome kids and is financially comfortable.

Just to throw out there that being short is jot the end of the world as some are implying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just for some perspective, DH is 5'3" and life is not too terrible. He married a short woman (5') and is a successful professional with two awesome kids and is financially comfortable.

Just to throw out there that being short is jot the end of the world as some are implying.

I don't think the OP was implying that being short is the end of the world.

She is 6-1. Her husband is 6-5. It's perfectly reasonable for her to wonder why her son is well below the 50th percentile for his age. Short people are amazing and have great lives, but two people of that height are very unlikely to produce one of these wonderful people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also OP, he might just wind up being smaller than all of you.

My dad is 6'4" -- his sister is 5'0". Same set of genetics, different outcomes.

But that's not really relevant to the OP's situation. Were your grandparents both extremely tall people and produced a daughter who was 5-0? I doubt it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD was a very late bloomer and showed no signs of puberty until 14. We were concerned by how tiny she was in middle school. People always commented on it. She only weighed about 70lbs at the end of 7th grade. We are not tall, but not super short and I wanted to make sure she would be over 5 feet. I ended up taking her to an endocrinologist for my own reassurance. He said her bone size was 2 years behind her peers and predicted where she would end up height wise- 5'2'. She's actually an inch taller! i don't think you have anything to lose by seeing an endocrinoloigst. Your DS could very well be a very late bloomer like my DD, but I found the reassurance well worth the visit.

I am 5 feet tall -- and have a perfectly happy and healthy life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just for some perspective, DH is 5'3" and life is not too terrible. He married a short woman (5') and is a successful professional with two awesome kids and is financially comfortable.

Just to throw out there that being short is jot the end of the world as some are implying.

I don't think the OP was implying that being short is the end of the world.

She is 6-1. Her husband is 6-5. It's perfectly reasonable for her to wonder why her son is well below the 50th percentile for his age. Short people are amazing and have great lives, but two people of that height are very unlikely to produce one of these wonderful people.

No, not really. I work with somebody who is 6-5. His fraternal twin brother is 5-8. And my 5-3 mother and 5-8 father produced a 6-0 son.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just for some perspective, DH is 5'3" and life is not too terrible. He married a short woman (5') and is a successful professional with two awesome kids and is financially comfortable.

Just to throw out there that being short is jot the end of the world as some are implying.

exactly ------!!
signed short and proud!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just for some perspective, DH is 5'3" and life is not too terrible. He married a short woman (5') and is a successful professional with two awesome kids and is financially comfortable.

Just to throw out there that being short is jot the end of the world as some are implying.

I don't think the OP was implying that being short is the end of the world.

She is 6-1. Her husband is 6-5. It's perfectly reasonable for her to wonder why her son is well below the 50th percentile for his age. Short people are amazing and have great lives, but two people of that height are very unlikely to produce one of these wonderful people.

No, not really. I work with somebody who is 6-5. His fraternal twin brother is 5-8. And my 5-3 mother and 5-8 father produced a 6-0 son.

I think some of you really need a basic genetics class. Of course siblings can vary widely in height from each other and that's likely because their parents vary widely in height (relative to the mean for their sex). In your twins case, it's very possible they had a very tall dad and a shorter mom or vice versa. But it is pretty unusual for two extremely tall people to produce a significantly shorter than average son. A 6-1 woman and a 6-5 man are WAY off the normal growth chart (99th percentile+). They are both 7+ inches taller than the mean. It is absolutely a red flag that they have a child below the 50th percentile for height. Maybe everything is fine, but why not get the kid checked out.

Your just below average height parents producing a just above average height son isn't particularly relevant either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just for some perspective, DH is 5'3" and life is not too terrible. He married a short woman (5') and is a successful professional with two awesome kids and is financially comfortable.

Just to throw out there that being short is jot the end of the world as some are implying.

I don't think the OP was implying that being short is the end of the world.

She is 6-1. Her husband is 6-5. It's perfectly reasonable for her to wonder why her son is well below the 50th percentile for his age. Short people are amazing and have great lives, but two people of that height are very unlikely to produce one of these wonderful people.

No, not really. I work with somebody who is 6-5. His fraternal twin brother is 5-8. And my 5-3 mother and 5-8 father produced a 6-0 son.

I think some of you really need a basic genetics class. Of course siblings can vary widely in height from each other and that's likely because their parents vary widely in height (relative to the mean for their sex). In your twins case, it's very possible they had a very tall dad and a shorter mom or vice versa. But it is pretty unusual for two extremely tall people to produce a significantly shorter than average son. A 6-1 woman and a 6-5 man are WAY off the normal growth chart (99th percentile+). They are both 7+ inches taller than the mean. It is absolutely a red flag that they have a child below the 50th percentile for height. Maybe everything is fine, but why not get the kid checked out.

Your just below average height parents producing a just above average height son isn't particularly relevant either.

ITA. Check for malabsorption.

[Anonymous]

I was always the smallest kid in my class (not too surprising since my parents are small Chinese). However when I was 16 going on 17, in my junior year of HS, I grew from 5'2", one of the smallest in the class to 5'8" and average height in about 6 months. It was frustrating no end to my mother. At that time, to save money, she would get me jeans that were several inches long, then would hem them in to fit. She would let the legs out as needed until the pants were too old or worn (usually in the knees). When I finished 11th grade, there were 4 hem lines on my pants legs as she had to let the pants out 3 times during that school year.

Growth spurts happen in kids, even kids in the same family at very different ages. If your son has not hit puberty yet I would not worry about him not hitting his growth spurt yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just for some perspective, DH is 5'3" and life is not too terrible. He married a short woman (5') and is a successful professional with two awesome kids and is financially comfortable.

Just to throw out there that being short is jot the end of the world as some are implying.

I don't think the OP was implying that being short is the end of the world.

She is 6-1. Her husband is 6-5. It's perfectly reasonable for her to wonder why her son is well below the 50th percentile for his age. Short people are amazing and have great lives, but two people of that height are very unlikely to produce one of these wonderful people.

But that's not what she said. She described her perfectly averaged size kid as "tiny". (Which, in my mind, is even smaller than small)
If she had asked about experiences with a child significantly smaller than his parents, or a child who had falled sharply off the growth curve, she would have gotten useful responses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just for some perspective, DH is 5'3" and life is not too terrible. He married a short woman (5') and is a successful professional with two awesome kids and is financially comfortable.

Just to throw out there that being short is jot the end of the world as some are implying.

I don't think the OP was implying that being short is the end of the world.

She is 6-1. Her husband is 6-5. It's perfectly reasonable for her to wonder why her son is well below the 50th percentile for his age. Short people are amazing and have great lives, but two people of that height are very unlikely to produce one of these wonderful people.

But that's not what she said. She described her perfectly averaged size kid as "tiny". (Which, in my mind, is even smaller than small)
If she had asked about experiences with a child significantly smaller than his parents, or a child who had falled sharply off the growth curve, she would have gotten useful responses.

Please. She's speaking from her own perspective. For her and her family, the kid is tiny. Yes, I agree it's possibly not the best choice of words, but I can see why she used the word.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just for some perspective, DH is 5'3" and life is not too terrible. He married a short woman (5') and is a successful professional with two awesome kids and is financially comfortable.

Just to throw out there that being short is jot the end of the world as some are implying.

I don't think the OP was implying that being short is the end of the world.

She is 6-1. Her husband is 6-5. It's perfectly reasonable for her to wonder why her son is well below the 50th percentile for his age. Short people are amazing and have great lives, but two people of that height are very unlikely to produce one of these wonderful people.

No, not really. I work with somebody who is 6-5. His fraternal twin brother is 5-8. And my 5-3 mother and 5-8 father produced a 6-0 son.

I think some of you really need a basic genetics class. Of course siblings can vary widely in height from each other and that's likely because their parents vary widely in height (relative to the mean for their sex). In your twins case, it's very possible they had a very tall dad and a shorter mom or vice versa. But it is pretty unusual for two extremely tall people to produce a significantly shorter than average son. A 6-1 woman and a 6-5 man are WAY off the normal growth chart (99th percentile+). They are both 7+ inches taller than the mean. It is absolutely a red flag that they have a child below the 50th percentile for height. Maybe everything is fine, but why not get the kid checked out.

Your just below average height parents producing a just above average height son isn't particularly relevant either.

Yeah, no. Even if height is highly heritable, there are still going to be lots of exceptions. Tall parents with short kids, short parents with tall kids. And that's entirely apart from regression to the mean.

[Anonymous]

In high school my best friends brother was the same height as me 5 feet. I'm still 5 feet he is now 6' 6. Around senior year and college he grew a ton.