What did you ped recommend for short stature?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would you do this for a girl?

I have 5'7" (asian female so pretty tall for my gene pool) and DH is 5'10" (normal size white guy). My oldest daughter is probably going to be barely eke out to 5'4" (she will most likely take after my husbands mother and sister), whereas my youngest son is in the 99th percentile and will probably be well over 6' tall (he is still young but we both have a lot of tall male genes in our family with one uncle being 6'4" and my brother being 6'1").

No way would I give a 5’4” girl growth hormones! That’s average height for a woman, not super short. I’m also Asian, 5’3”, with a teenage daughter who is 5’1”.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Would you do this for a girl?

I have 5'7" (asian female so pretty tall for my gene pool) and DH is 5'10" (normal size white guy). My oldest daughter is probably going to be barely eke out to 5'4" (she will most likely take after my husbands mother and sister), whereas my youngest son is in the 99th percentile and will probably be well over 6' tall (he is still young but we both have a lot of tall male genes in our family with one uncle being 6'4" and my brother being 6'1").

No way would I give a 5’4” girl growth hormones! That’s average height for a woman, not super short. I’m also Asian, 5’3”, with a teenage daughter who is 5’1”.

I think the point is with the same set of variables, people aren't doing this for girls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would you do this for a girl?

I have 5'7" (asian female so pretty tall for my gene pool) and DH is 5'10" (normal size white guy). My oldest daughter is probably going to be barely eke out to 5'4" (she will most likely take after my husbands mother and sister), whereas my youngest son is in the 99th percentile and will probably be well over 6' tall (he is still young but we both have a lot of tall male genes in our family with one uncle being 6'4" and my brother being 6'1").

Extremely unlikely with an average size mom and short-ish father. He will be lucky to get to six feet. Maybe. "Tall male genes" besides the father's really don't matter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would you do this for a girl?

I have 5'7" (asian female so pretty tall for my gene pool) and DH is 5'10" (normal size white guy). My oldest daughter is probably going to be barely eke out to 5'4" (she will most likely take after my husbands mother and sister), whereas my youngest son is in the 99th percentile and will probably be well over 6' tall (he is still young but we both have a lot of tall male genes in our family with one uncle being 6'4" and my brother being 6'1").

No way would I give a 5’4” girl growth hormones! That’s average height for a woman, not super short. I’m also Asian, 5’3”, with a teenage daughter who is 5’1”.

I think the point is with the same set of variables, people aren't doing this for girls.

Well, I wouldn’t do it for an averaged-sized man either.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would you do this for a girl?

I have 5'7" (asian female so pretty tall for my gene pool) and DH is 5'10" (normal size white guy). My oldest daughter is probably going to be barely eke out to 5'4" (she will most likely take after my husbands mother and sister), whereas my youngest son is in the 99th percentile and will probably be well over 6' tall (he is still young but we both have a lot of tall male genes in our family with one uncle being 6'4" and my brother being 6'1").

No way would I give a 5’4” girl growth hormones! That’s average height for a woman, not super short. I’m also Asian, 5’3”, with a teenage daughter who is 5’1”.

I think the point is with the same set of variables, people aren't doing this for girls.

Well, I wouldn’t do it for an averaged-sized man either.

Right, OP's son is 2nd percentile, with parents whose heights are way above that. He probably just inherited the shorter genetic variants on both sides of the family and/or will have a growth spurt later, but I'd say there's no reason not to check it out. I don't think I'd intervene unless there was an actual medical concern though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Would you do this for a girl?

I have 5'7" (asian female so pretty tall for my gene pool) and DH is 5'10" (normal size white guy). My oldest daughter is probably going to be barely eke out to 5'4" (she will most likely take after my husbands mother and sister), whereas my youngest son is in the 99th percentile and will probably be well over 6' tall (he is still young but we both have a lot of tall male genes in our family with one uncle being 6'4" and my brother being 6'1").

Extremely unlikely with an average size mom and short-ish father. He will be lucky to get to six feet. Maybe. "Tall male genes" besides the father's really don't matter.

Well my father is 5'8" on a good day and my mom is 5'4" give or take. My brother is 6'1". So genes are weird.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would you do this for a girl?

I have 5'7" (asian female so pretty tall for my gene pool) and DH is 5'10" (normal size white guy). My oldest daughter is probably going to be barely eke out to 5'4" (she will most likely take after my husbands mother and sister), whereas my youngest son is in the 99th percentile and will probably be well over 6' tall (he is still young but we both have a lot of tall male genes in our family with one uncle being 6'4" and my brother being 6'1").

Extremely unlikely with an average size mom and short-ish father. He will be lucky to get to six feet. Maybe. "Tall male genes" besides the father's really don't matter.

Well my father is 5'8" on a good day and my mom is 5'4" give or take. My brother is 6'1". So genes are weird.

I donMt understand why people keep pointing their unique cases… just because your brother is taller then both mom and dad, it does not mean that in most cases your parents would produce a 5’9” man and 5’3” woman

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would you do this for a girl?

I have 5'7" (asian female so pretty tall for my gene pool) and DH is 5'10" (normal size white guy). My oldest daughter is probably going to be barely eke out to 5'4" (she will most likely take after my husbands mother and sister), whereas my youngest son is in the 99th percentile and will probably be well over 6' tall (he is still young but we both have a lot of tall male genes in our family with one uncle being 6'4" and my brother being 6'1").

Extremely unlikely with an average size mom and short-ish father. He will be lucky to get to six feet. Maybe. "Tall male genes" besides the father's really don't matter.

Well my father is 5'8" on a good day and my mom is 5'4" give or take. My brother is 6'1". So genes are weird.

I donMt understand why people keep pointing their unique cases… just because your brother is taller then both mom and dad, it does not mean that in most cases your parents would produce a 5’9” man and 5’3” woman

I am the PP you are responding to. My parents (heights noted above) produced 5 kids: DD1 5'5", DD2 5'4", DD3 5'7", DD4 5'7" and DS 6'1". Again genes are a weird lot. And a lot of our height is probably based on nutrition since our parents weren't born in America but some of the siblings were raised in America.

[Anonymous]

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I don’t think that’s how works at all. My dad is 6’ and my mom is 5’5” and yet I barely eked out 5’1”. My DH is 5’11” and his sister is my height. Even with my own kids, my older DS is 35th % and my younger DS is 80th and going to surpass his older brother soon. Same genetics, but very different percentiles.

Siblings share only 50% of their DNA -- lots of room for variation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would you do this for a girl?

I have 5'7" (asian female so pretty tall for my gene pool) and DH is 5'10" (normal size white guy). My oldest daughter is probably going to be barely eke out to 5'4" (she will most likely take after my husbands mother and sister), whereas my youngest son is in the 99th percentile and will probably be well over 6' tall (he is still young but we both have a lot of tall male genes in our family with one uncle being 6'4" and my brother being 6'1").

Extremely unlikely with an average size mom and short-ish father. He will be lucky to get to six feet. Maybe. "Tall male genes" besides the father's really don't matter.

Well my father is 5'8" on a good day and my mom is 5'4" give or take. My brother is 6'1". So genes are weird.

I donMt understand why people keep pointing their unique cases… just because your brother is taller then both mom and dad, it does not mean that in most cases your parents would produce a 5’9” man and 5’3” woman

I am the PP you are responding to. My parents (heights noted above) produced 5 kids: DD1 5'5", DD2 5'4", DD3 5'7", DD4 5'7" and DS 6'1". Again genes are a weird lot. And a lot of our height is probably based on nutrition since our parents weren't born in America but some of the siblings were raised in America.

Were the siblings raised in America taller than the other siblings?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would you do this for a girl?

I have 5'7" (asian female so pretty tall for my gene pool) and DH is 5'10" (normal size white guy). My oldest daughter is probably going to be barely eke out to 5'4" (she will most likely take after my husbands mother and sister), whereas my youngest son is in the 99th percentile and will probably be well over 6' tall (he is still young but we both have a lot of tall male genes in our family with one uncle being 6'4" and my brother being 6'1").

Extremely unlikely with an average size mom and short-ish father. He will be lucky to get to six feet. Maybe. "Tall male genes" besides the father's really don't matter.

Well my father is 5'8" on a good day and my mom is 5'4" give or take. My brother is 6'1". So genes are weird.

I donMt understand why people keep pointing their unique cases… just because your brother is taller then both mom and dad, it does not mean that in most cases your parents would produce a 5’9” man and 5’3” woman

I am the PP you are responding to. My parents (heights noted above) produced 5 kids: DD1 5'5", DD2 5'4", DD3 5'7", DD4 5'7" and DS 6'1". Again genes are a weird lot. And a lot of our height is probably based on nutrition since our parents weren't born in America but some of the siblings were raised in America.

Were the siblings raised in America taller than the other siblings?

DD3 and DD4 were raised in America. DD1, DD2 and DS were raised in foreign country. But I would probably note that DS probably ate more and had more access to quality food (he was the boy and the youngest and parents had more income when he was born).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would you do this for a girl?

I have 5'7" (asian female so pretty tall for my gene pool) and DH is 5'10" (normal size white guy). My oldest daughter is probably going to be barely eke out to 5'4" (she will most likely take after my husbands mother and sister), whereas my youngest son is in the 99th percentile and will probably be well over 6' tall (he is still young but we both have a lot of tall male genes in our family with one uncle being 6'4" and my brother being 6'1").

Why? Is your assertion that your 5'4" DD is dropping to the bottom of the growth curve?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would you do this for a girl?

I have 5'7" (asian female so pretty tall for my gene pool) and DH is 5'10" (normal size white guy). My oldest daughter is probably going to be barely eke out to 5'4" (she will most likely take after my husbands mother and sister), whereas my youngest son is in the 99th percentile and will probably be well over 6' tall (he is still young but we both have a lot of tall male genes in our family with one uncle being 6'4" and my brother being 6'1").

So your daughter took after your husband and your son after you. What’s so strange about that? The female equivalent of 5’10” is 5’4” and the male equivalent of 5’7 is 6’. Makes perfect sense to me

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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”

I don’t think that’s how works at all. My dad is 6’ and my mom is 5’5” and yet I barely eked out 5’1”. My DH is 5’11” and his sister is my height. Even with my own kids, my older DS is 35th % and my younger DS is 80th and going to surpass his older brother soon. Same genetics, but very different percentiles. It’s a bit of a sensitive issue for my older son that his “little” brother is going to catch up to him soon size-wise, which is why I opened this thread. But I realize 35% is very different than 3%.

I think anytime a child is on the far end of the percentile chart without a clear genetic basis, a specialist visit isn’t a bad idea. Someone mentioned how we don’t pathologize being the 99th %, but I think if that kid came from shorter/average sized parents, a doctor may want to rule out a health issue. I have a cousin who was growing faster than expected and it turns out she has a triple X chromosome.

Do you have any family resemblance to your father's side?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would you do this for a girl?

I have 5'7" (asian female so pretty tall for my gene pool) and DH is 5'10" (normal size white guy). My oldest daughter is probably going to be barely eke out to 5'4" (she will most likely take after my husbands mother and sister), whereas my youngest son is in the 99th percentile and will probably be well over 6' tall (he is still young but we both have a lot of tall male genes in our family with one uncle being 6'4" and my brother being 6'1").

No way would I give a 5’4” girl growth hormones! That’s average height for a woman, not super short. I’m also Asian, 5’3”, with a teenage daughter who is 5’1”.

I think the point is with the same set of variables, people aren't doing this for girls.

NP. I would be much more concerned, and thus probably more likely to dig deeper, if my son were going to be well below average height for a man than if my daughter were going to be well below average height for a woman. Being short is a bigger problem/hardship for men, and most parents like to protect their kids from hardship where they can. **shrug**