Growth percentile question

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, my dad is 5'11, my mom is 5'9 and I ended up 5'5. I take after both of my grandmothers who were petite. My maternal grandfather was 6'3 so that explains my mom's height. Genetics are weird.

My son is 3 and has consistently hovered 90% on the growth chart since birth. It will be interesting to see where he ends up, I'm guessing around 5'11 as that's the height of my husband.

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Anonymous wrote:The parents are absolutely the best indication. My son is almost 8 and is probably in the 30th percentile for height. That said my husband is almost 6 feet – not super tall but certainly not the 30th percentile - and was a very tiny child who grew a lot in high school.

But that’s not easy to do when one spouse is very tall and the other quite short. DH is 6’2”, but I am 5’4” so our kids could go both ways (or somewhere in the middle). My girls are 5.5 and 3.5 and are both quite tall (75-85%). Not sure they will stay this way or not.

More likely to trend towards the same sex parent. They may be in between you, but you’re not looking at girls who will be 6 feet tall.

+1 My mom is 5'4 and my dad was 6'7. My sisters and I are all 5'7-5'8. We're tall but not on the order of 6'7. That said, I was off the charts (over 100%) until 4th grade, they said I would be over 6', but I literally stopped growing at age 11, so the predictions are not really accurate.

[Anonymous]

My kid was in the 75-80th percentile until 2.5, then shot up to the low 90s. DH is 6'2" and I'm 5'6".

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What do you consider tall?

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DS was a preemie, who by 2/2.5 hit his growth stride. He has hovered around 97th percentile since then. He's now 11. DH is the shortest in his immediate and extended family at 6'2". I'm 5'5" and a hair shorter than most women in my family. The men in my family look to be average/above average in height. DS looks like me and is built like DH, so I'm guessing he will continue along this path. DS2 (age 7) looks like DH, but is shaped like the rest of DH's family, rather slender. He hovers around 92nd percentile and has since he was 3 or so. I suspect that we will not have tiny boys by the time they reach adulthood. Genetics are hard to predict.

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I really think parents of kids under 15 or even 18 should not be answering this unless their 11 year old is over 6ft tall already. That short boy in 8th grade might end up NBA tall or stay short, looking at parents is the best way. My DS was below 1% height as a child, until 15, 16 years old. He is average height at 20, 5'11".

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My nieces were always right around the 50th percentile for height, a little lower for weight. They are fully grown now, or close to it (one is 20, one 16) and the older one is maybe 5'1" and the younger one is 5'7". *shrug emoji*

They used to say double your height at 3 (I think?) and get your adult height, so my parents always told me I'd be about 5'8". I'm 5'2". DH has a female friend who was always one of the tallest in class through elementary. She's also 5'2".

I think childhood growth curves, maybe especially for girls, as they stop growing younger, don't correlate that strongly with adult height, maybe with exceptions for "extremes" like the 5th or 99th percentiles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My nieces were always right around the 50th percentile for height, a little lower for weight. They are fully grown now, or close to it (one is 20, one 16) and the older one is maybe 5'1" and the younger one is 5'7". *shrug emoji*

They used to say double your height at 3 (I think?) and get your adult height, so my parents always told me I'd be about 5'8". I'm 5'2". DH has a female friend who was always one of the tallest in class through elementary. She's also 5'2".

I think childhood growth curves, maybe especially for girls, as they stop growing younger, don't correlate that strongly with adult height, maybe with exceptions for "extremes" like the 5th or 99th percentiles.

Its double the height at 2 for boys and 18m for girls.

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Anonymous wrote:My nieces were always right around the 50th percentile for height, a little lower for weight. They are fully grown now, or close to it (one is 20, one 16) and the older one is maybe 5'1" and the younger one is 5'7". *shrug emoji*

They used to say double your height at 3 (I think?) and get your adult height, so my parents always told me I'd be about 5'8". I'm 5'2". DH has a female friend who was always one of the tallest in class through elementary. She's also 5'2".

I think childhood growth curves, maybe especially for girls, as they stop growing younger, don't correlate that strongly with adult height, maybe with exceptions for "extremes" like the 5th or 99th percentiles.

Its double the height at 2 for boys and 18m for girls.

Whatever age it was supposed to be in ~1979-1981, I was 34" tall at the time, and not 68" now. It's obviously BS, and not because of my specific anecdote. There's just no logic to it.

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Both of my kids have been 90-95% since birth and followed those curves. Both DH and I are tall.