Dense, heavy kids
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Anonymous
Picked my 7yo up last night to carry out of bed for a dream pee. Usually my husband does it, but he was still working on something. This kid was so heavy that I somehow tweaked something in my hip. 
She is tall and slim but extremely dense—solid muscle. I think she weighs around 55-60 lbs. She occasionally tries to jump on my back or wrestle and I have to stop her, since she’s almost as big as me (5’3). Am I just a weakling/getting old? Or others have problems with heavy kids too? |
Anonymous
| My DD is same age and size, also very densely built. Her older brother has birdlike bones. Different genetic stock. I think it's normal to find it challenging to haul 50+ pounds! |
Anonymous
Yes to different genetic stock!! I’ve always had a much heavier (same length) twin and a light as a feather twin. People would marvel at the difference between the baby and the bag of bowling balls twin. One was always harder to lift, at 7 they help distribute their weight a bit better on the rare occasion they need a lift. The twin even at 7 still feels like you could pick them up and they’ll float off into the sky. |
Anonymous
OP, and yes, when I've picked up her friends, they are like little birds, so light! People have always picked up my kid when younger and commented whoa, she's heavier than she looks. I think she will only get more dense, since she started a team sport recently. I'll have to add more strength training to my workouts. 
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Anonymous
OP, and yes, I don't carry her around either (told her no more carrying a couple years ago, unless she is sick or injured, which is very rare). At school pickup, occasionally she has started running and jumping into my arms. I have to brace myself since it feels like I'm being hit by a freight train, lol. |
Anonymous
She can be your strength training! LOL |
Anonymous
| my 6 year old is 60 pounds. His Pediatrician told me to ignore anything we might get from the school regarding BMI because DS is fine. He is in the 99th percentile for height and weight but will come up as over weight on the BMI scale because of his age. |
Anonymous
| It may not be density, but muscle tone. Low tone kids feel heavier because they are not using their own muscles to help you or to balance their own weight in the lift. My DS and his best buddy were same height and weight, but he has low tone and she's a gymnast in the making. The difference in lifting them is stunning. He is dead weight, while you could hold her without using your arms since she clings like she's shinnying up a pole. |
Anonymous
OP, and my kid is actually pretty muscular and strong. She can do probably 5-6 chin-ups, backbend kickovers, multiples of that move where you hold onto a bar and raise straight legs to touch bar, etc. She's heavier than most of her teammates. |
Anonymous
That would also apply to a kid who is sleeping, they aren't helping at all |
Anonymous
| Same with my DD. I stopped carrying her around 4-5 yrs old. |
Anonymous
| I can only pick up my 7 year old when he's awake and actively helping. There is no way I could move him in his sleep and he's not as a big as OP's DD. I'm smaller than OP, though, and I told my boys several years ago that any wrestling and rough housing must be done with their father. They are too big for me now. When they fight, I can't pull them apart. I can only collapse on them. I'm still able to use my own deadweight against them. |
Anonymous
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Your 7 year old is five foot three????
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Anonymous
Yeah, I wondered about that as well. My 6 year old is considered tall and he is only 4' 2". |
Anonymous
OP is 5'3". 7 year old is 'almost as tall.' |