Reply to What did you ped recommend for short stature?

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "What did you ped recommend for short stature?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone has to be the 3%.

It doesn’t mean anything is wrong.  There are posts at least weekly here about a mom wondering why her son is so short and what endocrinologist to see. The vast majority 
of short kids don’t have a medical problem.

Good luck ruling things out, but don’t be at all surprised if there is nothing wrong. [/quote]

If you are average height at 5'4 and your husband is 5'8 I would expect your son to be short. If you average your heights, you get 5'6...It would probably take a miracle or for you both to come from tall families for your child to be as tall as your husband. I would be concerned for my child from a social standpoint for my child, but I also think you may need to accept that there is nothing wrong with your son. [/quote]

What? That is not how it works. From the average of mom and dad you add 2-3 inches for boys and subtract 2-3 inches for girls. 
If Op is 5’4” and dad is 5’8” they don’t should be 5’8”-5’9” and their daughter should be 5’4”-5’3”[/quote]

Man I wish....mom 5'8'' dad 5'11''. Im barely 5'4'' my two brothers are 5'7'' and 6'3''.  :lol:  Genes are funny. We all have different colored hair and different colored eyes. Dirty blonde with blue, reddish blond with brown, and dark brown with green. [/quote]

Are you a woman? Yes, a bit shorter than the expected 5’6 or so. Perhaps you took after short paternal grandmother or grandfather…

Anyway, it can happen of course, but your parents’ average son would be 6’1-6’2 and average girl 5’6-5’7[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics