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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is OP. A couple of PPs requested I come back to the thread after seeing his doctor, so this is what transpired: she said he's just very short. His growth spurt hasn't happened yet but even when it does he'll probably be small.

I'm sad for him. I don't think anything is wrong with being short, but he does. He's already very shy and prone to depression, and I worry that always being smaller than everyone else will just make him feel worse.[/quote]
OP, I posted on here before...

My DS at 14 was 61.25 in.  He grew during the pandemic, and slimmed out -- he was chunky.  He is 16.5 now, and about 5'8" or so.  He grew 2" in six months in the past seven months.  Between his 14 and 16 yr appointment, he grew about 4.25".

I'm super short, but DH is tall.  All of us hit puberty late.  DH said he grew in college, until about 20 or 21, though between 16 and 20, he didn't grow that much.

I think DS will end at  about 5'9 to 5'10".  So not tall, but not small, either.

Did they check his growth plates and determine what his bone age is?  I had to get a scan on DS' foot, and doctor said he was about 1 to 1.5 years behind in growth at the time (preteen).[/quote]

No, they didn’t do anything except say he’s on his growth curve. Which I don’t understand; he’s dramatically shorter than all his friends and his parents are tall. [/quote]

It means that he’s consistently in the percentile range that he’s always been in. That might be the 5th percentile, which comes out to 5’5” adult height. It can jump a round a bit, especially in during puberty; one of my sons hit puberty early and shot up to nearly 50th percentile because he was growing early. But then he fell back to his curve. As long as his personal growth curve looks healthy and consistent, that’s what matters. [/quote]

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