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[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]

Is there any family history of late growth spurts or delayed puberty in your family?  I ask because this happened to my son- and it was eventually brushed off as a “prepubertal dip” that some kids get before the growth spurt. He was always 75% percentile but between the ages of 12-14 he grew only 2.5 inches (total- in two years) and fell very very low on the growth charts to maybe 20th percentile at the lowest point. Finally his growth picked up a bit around age 14.5. The next year he grew 4-5 inches. Same the year after that.  His back was covered in stretch marks due to the quick growth. He is 6’1”.

There was definitely some history of delayed puberty and late growth in our family, however. On both sides. I know you said that she has “started puberty” but even with that- growth patterns do vary. My daughter grew 7 or 8 inches after her 12th birthday so it didn’t only apply to my son. [/quote]

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