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[quote=Anonymous]Another note on the guidance in Satter's work -- the thing to be concerned about it not your child's absolute weight but his overall growth chart.  If he is growing on a consistent curve, even if it's a high percentile, that is a sign that he is growing appropriately for his body. Deviations from the chart (both sudden gains and sudden drops) are indications of potential problems.

As I mentioned, my daughter has always been large but her ped. once observed that she'd never seen a kid stick so closely to her growth curve.  We did have a deviation when I went back to work full-time and DH took over packing lunches.  He was putting in way too much carbs (whole bagel every day for a 5 year old) with no protein plus cookies every day.  At that year's appt she did bump up above her curve and I took a closer look at what DH was packing for lunch!  Fixed that and by the next year she was back on her usual growth trajectory.  And appetite doesn't have a lot to do with the growth curve/percentile -- my very large daughter has a fairly small appetite.  But, she's growing into the body she is genetically programmed to have.[/quote]

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