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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate this guessing game. My ex husband isn’t particularly tall  but my daughter and I are tall. My son is almost 15 and not as tall as we are ( tall for a woman, avg for a man) Hoping beyond hope he’ll have a growth spurt but it’s feeling more and more unlikely as the months pass. He might be done.[/quote]

Have his ped do an x-ray of the growth plates in his wrist.  That will let you know how much growing is left.  We ended up doing a bone age x ray for DH, who turned out at 15 to have the average growth closure of a 12.5 yr old.  Another friend whose son she expected to be tall (husband is tall) seemed to slow down.  By the time they checked this, growth plate was closed.  Done, he's 5'7".  (Which isn't to say that's bad, but I think she's a bit embarrassed that she spent so much of his early teen years talking about how tall he was going to be as he was that height quite early).[/quote]

Why would you get your son an x-ray when there was nothing wrong with him?  [/quote]

+1. I wondered the same. [/quote]

Different poster. For my DS, his Dr ordered a bone scan and bloodwork at his 15 year check up because he still wasn’t showing any signs of puberty and wanted to rule out any other underlying issues. [/quote]

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