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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]

I don't quite understand this either.  Did they show you his growth curve and what percentile he's in?  Is it the same (or close) to what he's always been?  Where he is on the Tanner scale?

And he's 5'3" now, but hasn't started his growth spurt yet.  Boys, on average, grow 11-12" in puberty.  Now that's generally not all in one spurt, and of course it's an average.  But I'm not sure if I'd be entirely satisfied with what the doctor said.  It could very well be the case that he's on his growth curve and he'll be shorter than average.  But you may want to consider asking for his growth chart and visiting an endocrinologist.

Other parents' anecdotes about their sons, husbands, brothers, etc. growing in college and ending up 6' tall are all well and good but not applicable to [i]your[/i] son.  If you feel something is off, I'd ask for a copy of your son's growth chart and see an endocrinologist.  He/she will do the wrist/hand x-ray and can better determine where things stand.[/quote]

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