Insanity right before growing overnight?

[Anonymous]

I respectfully disagree that he grew half an inch overnight. Seems impossible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I respectfully disagree that he grew half an inch overnight. Seems impossible.

agree. There is usually 1/4 to 1/2 inch shrinkage of height by end of the day due to compression of the spaces between your joints throughout the day. So to get an accurate differential, measure in the mornings only. If you compare an evening with a morning reading, you will see false growth!

[Anonymous]

OP, yes, my children went through this.

Remember when they were babies? Especially if they were breastfed and gowing through a growth spurt, how hungry they were, and irritable, and they would cry and cry to nurse and your body wasn't making enough so they would wake up every couple of hours all night long....

It's just like that. (If you formula fed it would have been easier to give them more when they wanted it).

Now they are 13 and growing like weeds and it happens over the course of 3 days, again. They are HUNGRY!!!!! I suggest making a high calorie milkshake for him every night for a week. Lots of fat and protein.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I respectfully disagree that he grew half an inch overnight. Seems impossible.

OP's kid is probably going through a growth spurt, but not one that creates a 1/2 growth literally overnight.

This is the reason for that 1/2 inch: http://bedtimemath.org/fun-math-growing-overnight/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I respectfully disagree that he grew half an inch overnight. Seems impossible.

Or is it....? Apparently it is possible

https://www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/1999/March/ermarch.1/3_1_99lampl.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: My 13 year old was a mess last night-crying, arguing, yelling, falling apart over anything and everything. He is a usually mellow guy with a little anxiety here and there. Turns out he grew almost a half inch over night. I know because during a sane moment he asked me to measure him because he was asked how tall he is by a girl. I thought he was getting sick or something really upsetting happened at school. I asked him if he had not slept well the night before and he said he got plenty of sleep. I didn't know who he was last night and I have seen plenty of puberty mood swings, just not to this degree. This morning his taller self was calm, cool and collected.

Have you seen this happen? I know they can grow overnight, but the whole temporary insanity the night before growing?

Extreme exhaustion can cause these symptoms too.