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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]

The charts the writer is referring about have 0% to 100% and actual heights and weights associated with those percentages. So in fact, according to those growth charts, the child can be &gt; 100%.  I know these charts because my child was less than 0% on these charts and we monitored his height and weight like a hawk and ended up in the feeding clinic. (but very easy to carry my child -- only at age 8 is he getting too big to carry --47 lbs)[/quote]

No they don't.  There are no charts with 0% or 100% lines.  People assume the top and bottom lines are 0 and 100 but they aren't.  They are usually 1 and 99, or 3 and 97, although you might find one with other lines.

My kid was under 40 lbs at 9 (Z score below negative 4, weight below the 0.1% ile).  So, I know about outliers and about interventions for weight. [/quote]

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