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[quote=Anonymous]OP - as a PP has mentioned, off your son is only a Tanner 1 (which is that he hasn’t started puberty at all) or a 2 (just starting), he has not hit his growth spurt yet and certainly not his peak height velocity.

Of course final adult height is really hard to estimate, and a pediatrician just going by growth curves and percentiles don’t have the full picture.  My DS’s pediatrician, going by where he was on the growth chart at his last check up (15 years) predicted 5’8”.  But this was a different ped from the one who actually recommended we see a pediatric endocrinologist for lack of growth when DS was 12.  That specialist, after following DS thru the start of puberty, the benefit of hand-wrist bone xrays, family heights, etc predicted 5’10”.  DS is now on path to exceed that (and is already taller than the 5’8” predicted by the pediatrician 10 months ago.

Our parental heights are similar to yours, I’m 5’3” and DH is 6’2”.  So where my kids ended up is a crap shoot![/quote]

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