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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH... grew a foot over a summer (plus a bit). [/quote]

I've read/heard about such growth every now and then, yet on the tanners scale the PHV is 3.5 inches over a year+. To grow a foot+ in three months must've been such an outlier - like one in a million maybe?

on the other hand I suppose kids shoot up in summer because they go outside more and have regular meals and sleep in a lot?[/quote]
Those kinds of graphs are averages.  While this happened to my DH (it was longer than 3 months, but a lot was in the summer), and I'm sure others, it's probably not the norm to grow that much over such a short time.  It's probably more genetic when that happens.

Typically, I find that kids follow their parents in terms of puberty (late vs early) absent other issues.  I don't think our DS will be super tall. He will be lucky if he is 5'10 since I am super short (5'), but when puberty will hit, and therefore the growth spurt, seems to follow the parents' patterns.[/quote]

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