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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]70th %ile in the US is actually quite good, not too thin. This is not what the weight should be, it is the weight relative to other American kids. [/quote]

Perhaps your understanding of percentiles is incomplete? Percentiles are not grades. The only thing the 70th percentile for weight means is that 70% of kids weigh less and 30% weigh more. A kid could be at the 20th percentile for weight (i.e., 20% of kids weigh less, 80% weigh more) and still be fat, depending on height and muscle mass. Likewise, a kid could be at the 70th percentile for weight and still be too thin, again depending on height and muscle mass..[/quote]

The kid is at the 95th for height, and the chart is not conditional, so this is thin.
i don't believe the chart is a straight "average of kids in. America" but rather some normalized scale. I used to know the details but have forgotten.[/quote]

One of my kids was roughly 45th percentile for both height and weight and our pediatrician said that that was as it should be: that the percentiles for height and weight should be close to each other, not many percentage points apart.

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