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Reply to "anyone here have a toddler in the 100+ percentile for height and weight? How is your back?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just to be clear, you can't be above the 100th percentile. That would mean that you're taller or heavier than every child your age who exists, plus some other kids your age. Which is, of course, impossible. [/quote] Clinical growth charts don't actually intend to reflect every child who exists. WHO growth charts represent growth under "optimal conditions." CDC growth charts reflect some reference populations sampled from 1963 to 1994. That's why you'll sometimes see medical research that talks about how x% of children are above the 95% percentile for weight (where x>5). [/quote] While it is true that growth patterns change, and that the 95th %ile is not exactly at the 95th %ile of the current population, no growth chart has a 100th %ile line, or identifies a 100th%ile. It is not possible to be above the 100th %ile. [/quote]
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