Mine was literally off the charts at that age. He skimmed down once he started crawling and started running about a month after that. He’s a teen now and on the taller/muscular side but no thuge.
IME, the endos at children’s won’t even see you unless you’ve already had the blood work done to justify a referral. They have too many potential patients.

Anonymous wrote:Could just be big but if he has a pitutuary tumor or Marfan's syndrome or something you'd want to know!

This. The endocrinologist will probably order blood tests.

Ours has been way way off the charts from a baby to age 10 now. If it was a percentile, it's like 130% for height, 100% weight. Shoe size 9.5.
We aren't worried. I'm short, but we have some 5'9 ladies in family. I have big feet for my height too. Baby probably fine.

Anonymous wrote:Definitely ask the pediatrician for their reasoning on this type of thing.

I doubt there is “reasoning” so much as over X height and weight further screening is recommended.

I see no reason not to see the endocrinologist. Why wouldn’t you go? They’ll do whatever tests are appropriate and hopefully there’s nothing wrong and hooray.

Definitely ask the pediatrician for their reasoning on this type of thing.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't heard of such thing and mine have always been huge. They are 6'3 now. Are there any other health problems?

+1. Unless you and your husband are very petit, I’d probably look for another pediatrician. My girls have been way off the charts since birth for height. One is a bit slimmer, so not for weight.

Unless there’s a reason for concern, I’d seriously question the pediatrician’s decision.

+2. If there isn’t harm in running the extra tests you might as well but your kid could just be big. I’m petite but DH is a large guy. Kids were all huge as babies and are now tallish as kids but not wildly large.

I think the most invasive thing they would do would be a blood test (hopefully), which wouldn’t be that bad. Good to know that I might just be dealing with a big baby who may just be bigger than average as a kid.

Anonymous wrote:I haven't heard of such thing and mine have always been huge. They are 6'3 now. Are there any other health problems?

I’m OP. No, the baby has been totally healthy- he’s not crawling yet, and he was a little slower to roll over, but I would think because of his size. No gestational diabetes either, and he was 8.5 lbs at birth so not a world record, but I was induced at 39 weeks. I do suspect he is just going to be a big guy.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't heard of such thing and mine have always been huge. They are 6'3 now. Are there any other health problems?

+1. Unless you and your husband are very petit, I’d probably look for another pediatrician. My girls have been way off the charts since birth for height. One is a bit slimmer, so not for weight.

Unless there’s a reason for concern, I’d seriously question the pediatrician’s decision.

OP here. I am quite petite, which probably made her err on the side of caution I am thinking. And maybe that I have an older child who is above average but not off the charts. I don’t know, I’m just guessing. My husband is taller, though- 6’1”.

Could just be big but if he has a pitutuary tumor or Marfan's syndrome or something you'd want to know!

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't heard of such thing and mine have always been huge. They are 6'3 now. Are there any other health problems?

+1. Unless you and your husband are very petit, I’d probably look for another pediatrician. My girls have been way off the charts since birth for height. One is a bit slimmer, so not for weight.

Unless there’s a reason for concern, I’d seriously question the pediatrician’s decision.

+2. If there isn’t harm in running the extra tests you might as well but your kid could just be big. I’m petite but DH is a large guy. Kids were all huge as babies and are now tallish as kids but not wildly large.

Anonymous wrote:I haven't heard of such thing and mine have always been huge. They are 6'3 now. Are there any other health problems?

+1. Unless you and your husband are very petit, I’d probably look for another pediatrician. My girls have been way off the charts since birth for height. One is a bit slimmer, so not for weight.

Unless there’s a reason for concern, I’d seriously question the pediatrician’s decision.

You can have too much growth hormone, I think, just like you can have too little. Just let the endo check him out and if he/she says he is fine then he is fine!

I haven't heard of such thing and mine have always been huge. They are 6'3 now. Are there any other health problems?

My pediatrician made a referral for my son to see an endocrinologist just as a precaution. He’s consistently been at the 98-99th %ile for length and weight since he was about 1 month old, but he went through another little growth spurt since 6 months so she wanted to make a referral just to get things checked out. She was expecting him to level off a little and he hasn’t. He seems normal and healthy, but definitely very big. Like he wears 2T. I see people going to the pediatric endocrinologist for falling off the growth curve but not for skyrocketing above it- any feedback on what to expect, what to ask?