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[quote=Anonymous]Your child is around 1% for height and his weight was very low prior. He likely had trouble growing in height due to his eating habits. How do I know? I had that DS, just even lower weight at that same age. Endo did bone age and said, he had constitutional growth delay, the potential for being pretty tall, but unless he gains weight he will stay short. As it is/was we accomplished a lot and DS grew to 5'10" only BCS he gained weight. There is a direct correlatio, the pediatric endocrinologist said, to him eating and growing. Simply, you can not grow in height if you have no fuel to grow on. You need to let your ds eat and eat and eat. As for depression, you need to act to going on walks and doing something, many kids are doing sports even now. Good luck. BTW, my DS is now 21 and normal weight. Do I sometimes pause and think eff it, I wish he ate more back then? Yes, he likely would have been over 6 feet tall, heck we were told this by his endo.[/quote]
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