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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD was [b]7 pounds and 6 ounces at birth. By three months she remained on the 99-100% percentile [/b]for height and weight.  She is just big, always looking so much older than the children around her age.

She is now 3, and weighed 51 pounds at her last appointment and our pediatrician said it was alarming because it was way off the average for children her age.  It always has been, and so is her height.  If you were to look at her you wouldn't see a overweight, or even chunky three-year-old...you'd see a athletic five or six-year-old.  She is 42 inches tall, she's taller than her five year old cousin.  Why all the sudden the concern about her weight when it's in correlation with her height?  She isn't and won't ever be a thin girl, she is muscular and has a wide build like her father.

The doctor even admitted that if she were older that the height and weight would be fine but he is concerned just because it's abnormal for her age. Why is he worried about the weight and not the height?

I know it doesn't mean much without pictures, but she's just not an overweight fat child.  She is just BIG![/quote]

A 7.6 birthweight would not be in the 99% percentile.  Sorry, OP, it sounds like you're in denial about the size of your snowflake.  Your ped went to med school while you, presumably, did not.  I'd be a little more receptive about what he's saying[/quote]

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