Some of these replies are very assuring. my DD got her period in October (she turned 13 in Jan) and the doctor mentioned she will grow only another inch or 2.
She needs to grow 4 inches to come to my height. If the peds say that growth is limited after first period, then we will have a short generation as more and more girls are getting their period earlier.

Mine grew about 3.5 inches after the first period.

I got my period at ten I was 5'2 I'm 5'9 and was by 13

Started at 10 and grew 3-4 more inches...don't remember exactly. Final height 5'4".

DD was 5'9 at age 14. She is 5'10 at 15 and. Her feet just grew 1/2 size to 10. I am 5'11 and hope she is a little taller than me. Her 17 yo brother is just over 6'2 and also a later bloomer.

OP - how tall is she now?

Anonymous wrote:2.5, dr said 2 is average.

This is what our ped said as well. We aren't there yet.

I grew 6 inches. I was 9 almost 10 when I started. I was fie feet. I was 5'4" at age 11 and didn't grow for two years. I hoped I'd stay that height but at 13 I was 5'5 and 14 I was 5 6. I thought I had quit growing at 11 and was pretty disappointed when I started to grow again.

Got my period at 13. 4'10. Now 5'5. I also grew three inches between ages 17 and 25

My daughter is just a baby, but I grew maybe half an inch after getting my period. But I was almost 15 already. I'm a little over 5'5", which is tall for my family.

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Anonymous wrote:Drs say 2 inches is the average after start of menstruation, and growth normally ends 2 years after the start.

My daughter was always very tall - 99% percentile on the chart. I am 5'8, husband 6'4" but she got period early (10) and seems to have stopped growing at 5'6". Not a bad height, but with two tall parents we all thought she would end up being taller.

Can I ask how tall your DD was at 10? My DD is 10 1/2 and 5'2", she just got her first period. Her father is 6'3", I am 5'4" and she definitely has the big feet from his side. I have always expected her to be taller than me but maybe not.

At 10 she was the same height, 5'2". So she did grow more than the average of two additional inches, but far less than what we anticipated. Her shoe size is 10 (was a size 8 1/2 when she got her period)

I can tell you how much I grew. I was 11 and about 5'3 or 5'4. I went up to 5'7 where I remain today (with a little shrinkage due to age).

My parents are both average height, though there are a few other petite women in my extended family. I got my period at almost 13. I was chubby and 5'0, grew to be 5'1. I remember coming back to school at the beginning of 8th grade and feeling very short, since it seemed like all my peers had growth spurts that summer.

BTW what's wrong with being short, OP? While I hated that my friends went through the "coltish" phase while I stayed short and chunky, I slimmed down by the end of high school and loved the attention I got for being petite.

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Anonymous wrote:My cousin grew 8 inches, but I don't think that was the norm. She also got her period very late - at 16.

Similar experience for me. Started high school at 4'10" and finished at 5'6". Added a couple more in college. And very late on my period, 15, nearly 16.

Did you have constitutional growth delay pp? I'm asking because that is what my Dd's ped says she has - she is 5 but her bone age is 3.5 and her hormone is normal. She says DD will grow slower but for longer, and that puberty probably will be late too....

no idea. I was pretty average for the first 7 or 8 years of my life, if I'm remembering those meticulous growth charts my mother recorded correctly. And then I just...slowed down. But, at 9 I started pretty intense sports training, which may have played a factor, and am fairly small-boned. My small size didn't cause too much concern, because my maternal grandparents were small (5'4" and 5'1"), as was my paternal grandfather (5'5"). Everyone was far more surprised when I grew so much in high school.

I didn't love being small, but on the other hand, I think I was much more emotionally ready to deal with my period at 15. I cannot imagine going through that at 10. It sounds awful, just awful. So that was a nice "bonus."

Don't have a daughter, but I also got my period at 10 and as an adult am 5'0". I don't think I was full height when I got my period but I did not grow more than an inch or two. I definitely stopped growing by 6th grade.