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

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Here's the thing. A child who is 95%ile for height isn't supposed to be 95%ile for weight. That's not the way it works. If you think it is, discuss it with your Ped and they will explain.

95% for weight is almost always overweight. 95%ile for height is just tall. My three kids in the 90+%ile for height all have different body types, different skeletons, builds, etc. None of them have ever been over 75%ILE for weight after a year and you would never think they were too thin.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no such thing as just a big child. Your child is overweight. Fix it now or it will continue to get worse.

But her child is 42 inches. That is VERY tall. My 7-year old DD is 42 inches and weighs 45 lbs and is SUPER skinny and tall for her age. So if OP's DD is really 42 in and weighs 51 lbs at 3, then I doubt she's overweight. The real question is why she is so tall. OP -- are you and DH very tall?

42 inches is short for a 7 year old.

Sorry, I meant to say that my 7 year old DD is 52 inches and 45 lbs. OP -- if you're DD is only 42 inches and 51 lbs, she is probably overweight. My sister has a son who is on the bigger side and her ped said that weight and height should be roughly the same. So for 42 inches, 42 lbs would be about right.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's the thing. A child who is 95%ile for height isn't supposed to be 95%ile for weight. That's not the way it works. If you think it is, discuss it with your Ped and they will explain.

95% for weight is almost always overweight. 95%ile for height is just tall. My three kids in the 90+%ile for height all have different body types, different skeletons, builds, etc. None of them have ever been over 75%ILE for weight after a year and you would never think they were too thin.

Well, my ped would (and has) disagree. As did the one before. Being 95% for height AND weight does not necessarily equate to being overweight. It could. But it doesn't have to.

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How tall are you and your husband?

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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 Samoan or some other Pacific Islander!

I wondered the same thing.

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Has she always been on the same curve on the growth chart? Did she no go through the picky eating phase or something?

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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!!

Or maybe you typed in the numbers wrong.

Nope. Definitely didn't type in the numbers wrong. BMI is a very flawed system of measurement.

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All of you posting your kids' heights and weights - no one cares.

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Anonymous wrote:All of you posting your kids' heights and weights - no one cares.

I think they're trying to give OP perspective on her own kid's size. Perhaps OP doesn't care, but she really should.

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Good grief. My DS is three, 50 lbs and 43". He's fine. It's called having tall parents. Gigantism has features beyond being big.

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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!!

Or maybe you typed in the numbers wrong.

Folks just don't want to accept the truth. The calculators don't lie. You can't go by how you look.

I have to agree, my 50% height and 50% weight child just scored obese as well. There is NO way she's obese.

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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!!

Or maybe you typed in the numbers wrong.

Nope. Definitely didn't type in the numbers wrong. BMI is a very flawed system of measurement.

Agree, my BMI actually increased after I lost 40 lbs. I don't trust it at all.

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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!!

Or maybe you typed in the numbers wrong.

Nope. Definitely didn't type in the numbers wrong. BMI is a very flawed system of measurement.

Agree, my BMI actually increased after I lost 40 lbs. I don't trust it at all.

That isn't possible

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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!!

Or maybe you typed in the numbers wrong.

Nope. Definitely didn't type in the numbers wrong. BMI is a very flawed system of measurement.

Agree, my BMI actually increased after I lost 40 lbs. I don't trust it at all.

If your height didn't change, then I think you did the math wrong. It's a really simple formula.

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uh..I weighed less than your three year old in third grade.