Anonymous wrote:Is baby on “their” curve? And not falling off it? Then there is nothing to worry about.

My very low percentile at birth child stayed there. This was always what our ped told me. We did have periods where we had extra visits for weight checks, but basically he stayed the same.

My baby was small, stayed small and petite through most of childhood, and in her tweens is now still about 5-10% weight but has shot up in height to about 40-50%. She has a small frame, it's quite obvious. She's perfectly healthy. Not everyone is going to be 50% percentile. People have different body types and sizes and can be healthy at many of them.

Ours was less than 5% for the first couple years. It worried me and we did weight checks but she was heathy overall. I’ll never forget when she was two and running around the gym at school and another parent thought she was a much younger due to her size and very confused how she was so coordinated LOL! Now she’s in the 60th for height and 40th for weight.

Is baby on “their” curve? And not falling off it? Then there is nothing to worry about.

Both my kids were born lower end of average (6.5 lbs), so whatever percentile that is and by 4-6 months, were 75&92 percentile for weight and 90&98 percentile for height. Now 5 and 2 and have generally stayed on those curves (weights have dropped percentiles a little bit to 65&85).

My kids were both in single-digit percentiles until age 7 or so (for DC1… DC2 is younger but seems to be on the same path).
Per our ped,
- math requires someone to be at the lower percentiles. It does NOT mean anything’s wrong.
- their percentiles were low, but consistent. They were consistently at the same spot on the growth curve (i dicates they were growing roughly “normally,” just started at a smaller size
- hit all their developmental milestones on time. When very tiny kids don’t hit milestones that could be a worrisome sign.

My contrast, we have relatives whose kids were also consistently in low percentiles, but not hitting milestones / other indicators. They were tagged as failure to thrive.