Reply to Help for height

Forum Index » Tweens and Teens

Reply to "Help for height"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a girl being monitored by an endocrinologist.  No interventions yet, but she's had blood work and is being monitored.  She was 50th percentile for height and weight from birth all the way up until 4th grade, but has dropped 10 percentiles per year every year since, falling off her growth curve.

Now as a 12 yo 7th grader she's under the 10th percentile.  She wears a size 2 shoe and is 4'8" tall.  She has started puberty and her bone age matches her age, so there is some concern she won't make 5' tall.  Both parents are 5'8", so there's no reason to expect her to be so small.  (She's of German/Irish/English heritage.)[/quote]

Has she been screened for genetic disorders or any other syndromes? Anything else seem off about her other than the growth? This seems highly unusual [/quote]

If you were a doctor you wouldn’t find this unusual.   My oldest daughter is the only short one.  I know at 12 she was 4”10 because she played Clara in the Nutcracker and was in another child role in the professional ballet company.  They were strict about height and they measured the girls before auditioning. There were plenty of 12 year olds under 5’ tall.

My daughter didnt Get her period for two more years.  She never had a growth spurt she just slowly grew to 5’2”.  Perfectly normal. [/quote]

The PP’s daughter is 4’8” at 12 and basically stopped growing at 10- and has tall parents.  That isn’t normal [/quote]

Tall parents isn’t relevant.   Her growth stopping at ten years old is relevant.  [/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