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[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]

I don’t think that’s how works at all. My dad is 6’ and my mom is 5’5” and yet I barely eked out 5’1”. My DH is 5’11” and his sister is my height. Even with my own kids, my older DS is 35th % and my younger DS is 80th and going to surpass his older brother soon. Same genetics, but very different percentiles. It’s a bit of a sensitive issue for my older son that his “little” brother is going to catch up to him soon size-wise, which is why I opened this thread. But I realize 35% is very different than 3%.

I think anytime a child is on the far end of the percentile chart without a clear genetic basis, a specialist visit isn’t a bad idea. Someone mentioned how we don’t pathologize being the 99th %, but I think if that kid came from shorter/average sized parents, a doctor may want to rule out a health issue. I have a cousin who was growing faster than expected and it turns out she has a triple X chromosome.

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You need to look at the whole population. I was discussing averages. Of course there are cases that fall outside of the norm. My husband’s parents are 5’7” and 6’2”. They have 4 kids and while 3 fall right in between their parents (DD 5’9”, DS 6’2”, DS 6’) they have a daughter that is 6’1”. One of the grandfathers was 6’4” and she likely took after him.[/quote]

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