There is no such thing as just a big child. Your child is overweight. Fix it now or it will continue to get worse.

If she eats healthy food and gets plenty of exercise...what can you do? It sounds like her natural size, especially if your DH is built like a linebacker.

Could they be worried about a hormonal issue?

What was the pediatricians guidance?

Anonymous wrote:We are immigrants from another country. We are a different race than white. It is ridiculous for our kid to be not compared with other kids of the same race.

Are you Samoan or some other Pacific Islander!

I think I would make an appointment or call and ask the pediatrician why it was alarming. How can you control a child's height? And if the height and weight are on par, what exactly are you supposed to do?

As a baby my son was on the low end for weight and height according to the charts and his ped made a comment about how what you see on paper and what you see in person don't always tell the same story. My son was and is very healthy and his ped was not concerned at all.

Anonymous wrote:We are immigrants from another country. We are a different race than white. It is ridiculous for our kid to be not compared with other kids of the same race.

This is a pretty strange comment.

I hear you OP. My 42 lb 2 year old looked massive, though he was tall. As a 45 lb 3 year old, he looked a bit more proportional. He was slim as a 47 lb 4 year old, and skinny As a 50 lb. 5 year old. He's very thin as a 50 lb 6 year old who is the tallest his class.

We are immigrants from another country. We are a different race than white. It is ridiculous for our kid to be not compared with other kids of the same race.

Anonymous wrote:Your kid's BMI is in the 99th percentile rank, which is classified as obese. They have done studies that show most parents if overweight kids don't think their kids are overweight. You really should get a referral to a nutritionist.

This. OP use the calculator on webmd and read the results. They aren't great and explain your doctors concern. http://www.webmd.com/parenting/raising-fit-kids/weight/bmi/bmi-calculator

Your kid's BMI is in the 99th percentile rank, which is classified as obese. They have done studies that show most parents if overweight kids don't think their kids are overweight. You really should get a referral to a nutritionist.

My 10-year old weighs 60 pounds.

Everyone is different.

Anonymous wrote:My 59 pound 12 year old is not underweight, just SMALL. She was also 7 pounds and change at birth. She's often mistaken for 8 or 9 years old.

Why must some doctors become slaves to the statistics? They know when a child is healthy and when they are not, why not take genetics into account?

Look at the difference in adults, we aren't all going to fall into a five pound range.

My 59 pound 12 year old is not underweight, just SMALL. She was also 7 pounds and change at birth. She's often mistaken for 8 or 9 years old.

My DD was 7 pounds and 6 ounces at birth. By three months she remained on the 99-100% percentile 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!