My 51 pound three-year-old girl is not overweight, just BIG

[Anonymous]

I remember a story on 60 minutes where a mother of fraternal twins was alarmed because one of her twins was much smaller than the other. She took him to several doctors and they never found anything. It turned out that the large twin had a form of gigantism. You may want to take your daughter to an endocrinologist to rule it out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP here. Also, our ped said that 99th percentile in height (which our daughter has been since 3 months, her dad is 6'7" and I am 5'9"), shouldn't necessarily match up with 99th percentile in weight after age 2 or so. Max height can't be increased with overeating, but after the infant years, being at the top of the weight percentiles probably means you're overweight. So he said that it's typical to be 99th in height and 75th in weight.

Not necessarily. My pediatrican has emphasized to us that frame size and muscle mass are very important factors. I posted earlier about my DD who is high %ile in both height and weight -- you wouldn't look at her and think she looks overweight. She looks, and is, very muscular. As a baby/toddler, friends and caretakers who picked her up were always surprised because she was much heavier than they expected just to look at. Weight is a complicated issue.

[Anonymous]

51 lbs for that height is too much. I have a tall, big child who is muscular and big bones--who weighed a lot less at that height.

Sounds like you've got two things going. Yes, a tall big child but also one who may already be developing a weight problem while you deny it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP here. Also, our ped said that 99th percentile in height (which our daughter has been since 3 months, her dad is 6'7" and I am 5'9"), shouldn't necessarily match up with 99th percentile in weight after age 2 or so. Max height can't be increased with overeating, but after the infant years, being at the top of the weight percentiles probably means you're overweight. So he said that it's typical to be 99th in height and 75th in weight.

By definition, 1% of healthy, non-overweight children are in the 99th percentile for weight.

Why? The weight charge are supposed to cover everyone, the entire population, some of whom are overweight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP here. Also, our ped said that 99th percentile in height (which our daughter has been since 3 months, her dad is 6'7" and I am 5'9"), shouldn't necessarily match up with 99th percentile in weight after age 2 or so. Max height can't be increased with overeating, but after the infant years, being at the top of the weight percentiles probably means you're overweight. So he said that it's typical to be 99th in height and 75th in weight.

By definition, 1% of healthy, non-overweight children are in the 99th percentile for weight.

Why? The weight charge are supposed to cover everyone, the entire population, some of whom are overweight.

I'm not sure about this. Here is the methodology for the CDC growth charts:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_11/sr11_246.pdf

But in any case, by definition, 1% of healthy, non-overweight children are in the 99th percentile for weight among healthy, non-overweight children.

[Anonymous]

Huh. Our ped is really great about looking at both height and weight -- I would understand being concerned if your DD weren't in the upper percentile for height as well, but it sounds like she's also tall. My kids are the same way, upper percentiles for both height and weight and our ped (whom I respect immensely) wasn't concerned. Also, my DS gained 18 pounds between his 8th and 9th check-ups, but he had also gained three inches so she was unfazed. The next year he only grew 1/2 inch and hardly a pound / so she was right not to be concerned...it was a growth spurt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD was 7 pounds and 6 ounces at birth. By three months she remained on the 99-100% percentile for height and weight. She is just big, always looking so much older than the children around her age.

She is now 3, and weighed 51 pounds at her last appointment and our pediatrician said it was alarming because it was way off the average for children her age. It always has been, and so is her height. If you were to look at her you wouldn't see a overweight, or even chunky three-year-old...you'd see a athletic five or six-year-old. She is 42 inches tall, she's taller than her five year old cousin. Why all the sudden the concern about her weight when it's in correlation with her height? She isn't and won't ever be a thin girl, she is muscular and has a wide build like her father.

The doctor even admitted that if she were older that the height and weight would be fine but he is concerned just because it's abnormal for her age. Why is he worried about the weight and not the height?

I know it doesn't mean much without pictures, but she's just not an overweight fat child. She is just BIG!

Time for a new pediatrician. You and your DD don't need that bulls***, also, she needs evidence based medicine, not prejudice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP here. Also, our ped said that 99th percentile in height (which our daughter has been since 3 months, her dad is 6'7" and I am 5'9"), shouldn't necessarily match up with 99th percentile in weight after age 2 or so. Max height can't be increased with overeating, but after the infant years, being at the top of the weight percentiles probably means you're overweight. So he said that it's typical to be 99th in height and 75th in weight.

By definition, 1% of healthy, non-overweight children are in the 99th percentile for weight.

Why? The weight charge are supposed to cover everyone, the entire population, some of whom are overweight.

I'm not sure about this. Here is the methodology for the CDC growth charts:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_11/sr11_246.pdf

But in any case, by definition, 1% of healthy, non-overweight children are in the 99th percentile for weight among healthy, non-overweight children.

True, but the CDC growth charts don't just show healthy non-overweight children. The OP's child is among the heaviest 1% of all children her age.

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Anonymous wrote:Your kid's BMI is in the 99th percentile rank, which is classified as obese. They have done studies that show most parents if overweight kids don't think their kids are overweight. You really should get a referral to a nutritionist.

This. OP use the calculator on webmd and read the results. They aren't great and explain your doctors concern. http://www.webmd.com/parenting/raising-fit-kids/weight/bmi/bmi-calculator

I just plugged my DS info on this calculator and he's considered obese on it. He's extremely tall and lean - you can see his ribs and hip bones poking out. He towers above kids several years older than he is. I brothers who are over 6'8" and they are extremely skinny.

These BMI calculators are obviously missing something!!

[Anonymous]

My baby was ten pounds at birth. She is now 6 and 55 pounds, 53 inches. A 55 pound 3 year old who is only 42 inches tall sounds like a medical concern. Listen to your doctor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My baby was ten pounds at birth. She is now 6 and 55 pounds, 53 inches. A 55 pound 3 year old who is only 42 inches tall sounds like a medical concern. Listen to your doctor.

Or 51 pound. Same point. Your kid is way, way off the charts. Why are you resisting dealing with it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Huh. Our ped is really great about looking at both height and weight -- I would understand being concerned if your DD weren't in the upper percentile for height as well, but it sounds like she's also tall. My kids are the same way, upper percentiles for both height and weight and our ped (whom I respect immensely) wasn't concerned. Also, my DS gained 18 pounds between his 8th and 9th check-ups, but he had also gained three inches so she was unfazed. The next year he only grew 1/2 inch and hardly a pound / so she was right not to be concerned...it was a growth spurt.

Op's kid is way more heavy than tall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your kid's BMI is in the 99th percentile rank, which is classified as obese. They have done studies that show most parents if overweight kids don't think their kids are overweight. You really should get a referral to a nutritionist.

This. OP use the calculator on webmd and read the results. They aren't great and explain your doctors concern. http://www.webmd.com/parenting/raising-fit-kids/weight/bmi/bmi-calculator

I just plugged my DS info on this calculator and he's considered obese on it. He's extremely tall and lean - you can see his ribs and hip bones poking out. He towers above kids several years older than he is. I brothers who are over 6'8" and they are extremely skinny.

These BMI calculators are obviously missing something!!

Or maybe you typed in the numbers wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your kid's BMI is in the 99th percentile rank, which is classified as obese. They have done studies that show most parents if overweight kids don't think their kids are overweight. You really should get a referral to a nutritionist.

This. OP use the calculator on webmd and read the results. They aren't great and explain your doctors concern. http://www.webmd.com/parenting/raising-fit-kids/weight/bmi/bmi-calculator

I just plugged my DS info on this calculator and he's considered obese on it. He's extremely tall and lean - you can see his ribs and hip bones poking out. He towers above kids several years older than he is. I brothers who are over 6'8" and they are extremely skinny.

These BMI calculators are obviously missing something!!

Or maybe you typed in the numbers wrong.

NP. No, they are notoriously bad at gauging the approximate size of people who are "dense." A million years ago when I was thin, my BMI still said I was overweight. My doctor just said some people are heavier and she said she would have guessed I weighed 10-15 pounds less than I did. (Now I'm just straight up obese now matter how I measure it!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are immigrants from another country. We are a different race than white. It is ridiculous for our kid to be not compared with other kids of the same race.

Are you Asian?