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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To all these moms where your sons were 5’1 at 14 and shot up to 6’ or taller did you use growth hormone injections? Just curious? My son is 5’7 at 13, and he’s fighting parental grandparents genes at 4’9 and 5’5. Am interested did they grow naturally, or did you intervene. [/quote]

Hell no.  My oldest was 5'2" at 14 and 5'10" at 16.  And now I think he just passed 5'11" at 17.  The thing is, there is a definite history in late growth in my family.  My brother was 5'10" when he left HS and 6'3" when he finished college.  He was so, so skinny in MS and part of HS, he was a D1 soccer player, and pro post-college.

My oldest that is the 5'11" Junior is a Fall bday so older for his grade, turned 17 September of Junior year so that helped.

I did take my younger son to an endocrinologist at age 3.5-4 years old because he barely grew.  He also was a very picky eater, never hunger.  They did the wait and see, measured him every 3 months for 9 months and declared nothing wrong.  Though he went from 75% height to 20% for a long time.  I think he reached 30-40%height in middle school.

He is now a Freshmen and almost 15 (April) and I think maybe 5'5", but painfully skinny.  And still has a baby face.  He was still losing baby teeth (molars) this Fall.  When he's on the field he looks really small, partly because of how skinny he is. I sometimes wonder if something is wrong, but I remember how skinny my brother was and how even on my husband's side there were late growers.

The funny thing is, he is now taller than his brother was at his age, and his brother already had his voice change by then and feet were huge so it could be the one I have been worried about ends up the taller one at the end of it.

Last year and this year have been really hard for him with getting passed over for the big guys, but when he's in the game he's actually better (team has no turnovers, midfield runs smoothly efficiently, he directs the rest of the team, has the insightful through balls, etc), but so many coaches just see the giant players with no efficiency and touch plowing through people but losing the ball and that's what they seem to prefer.  The starting line up and subs always reflects that.  Then, after being down 3-0 the little guys finally get subbed in and no more goals are let up and there's connection and passing and smart runs.  Oh well... I guess they like to lose.[/quote]

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