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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 [b]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.[/b]

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Mayb you are both right and the pediatrician wants to get you all out of the office. They have more important things to worry about, like the kid with the BMI of 50

Nope, never heard that.   One of mine is 75% and 25%, and the other is 20% and 5%.  Perfectly happy and healthy, according to both me and their pediatrician.  [/quote][/quote]

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