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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids eat a much more varied and nutritious diet than I did as a kid and they're both forecast to be shorter than us.  We don't have any obesity in the family and are all fit.

DH and I are both 5'8" tall.  Our girls are expected to be 5'2" and 5'6", so noticeably shorter than both of us.   We attribute it to genetics given other shorter female family members.  It shouldn't be diet, as we eat a pretty darn clean and healthy diet by any standard.[/quote]

This is no great mystery.  The formula of expected height for girls is add up your two heights and minus five inches (would be plus five inches [b]for a boy[/b]) and divide by 2.  And then most kids will be within 2 inches of this prediction.

So that gave your offspring a likely range of 5'3.5" to 5'7.5" roughly.  So the 5-2 one is a bit shorter than expected.  The other one did better than expected.  Pretty unlikely either one would end up your height or taller.[/quote]

sorry above should have said for a boy.  It's minus five for a girl and plus five for a boy.[/quote]

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