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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just want to be good parent.  Add to my checklist

-Child comes from short people but has not gained an inch in three months.  5 feet 5 now.  -Delayed puberty diagnosis by 10 months according to bone scan.  Room to grow to 5’9- 5’11
-15 now - 16th birthday early next year 
-Cleared by endocrinology with diagnosis of delayed puberty (slight)
-Complains of ‘feeling full’ - now with childhood GI doc awaiting results. Parents sense he’s getting enough calories (competitive tennis) though we cook solid meals 
-super low in vitiman D - now on something large he can only take one pill a week - what GI doc discovered
-kid is well adjusted 
-think tall pills - vitamin supplements suggested by DCUM - actually helped by increasing calcium (kid hates milk) - still on these daily
-What else might we be missing?

Thanks in advance![/quote]

He seems fine.  He’s 15 and 5’5”.  He likely has at least 3 more years of growing if not more.  He is on track to be at minimum 5’8” but probably closer to the 5’9”-5’11” range.  I don’t even know what you mean by “hasn’t grown an inch in 3 months,” that is not at all significant.  He should be growing about 1-2 inches per year, minimum but maybe more

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Thanks for reassuring.  To the earlier pp who asked how much he weighs 112.  Thanks for the comments.  [/quote]

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