Two inches per year for two years after her period starts. Then maybe another inch or two thereafter until age 15.

My children are both shorter than my husband and I. Genetics. He’s 5”10. I’m 5”5. Kids are 5”2 and 5”3. We both have tall and short people on each side. I guess the genes went strictly shorter.

Anonymous wrote:Dh is 6’3 and has two sisters who are 5’1 and 5’2. Genetics are weird! Height is a hard thing to predict. His dad is 6’0 and his mom is 5’5.

Zero things wrong with being a short girl!

Except when you're in a sport that benefits from some height! My swimmer DD is really concerned about how tall she's going to be. . .hasn't hit a growth spurt yet and wondering if she's just going to be short or just a late bloomer.

Adult height is predicted based on one's own personal growth curve, constructed from data points throughout childhood. The heights of the parents are secondary, even though genetics strongly influence growth, because parental height is only a loose predictor of their children's height.

These days pediatricians can be quite accurate in predicting adult height. Girls' periods are not a factor in that prediction.

So look at your kid's growth curve.

Anonymous wrote:Don’t most girls get their periods at 10-11. Very few 10 year olds are even 5 feet tall. Among my Dads friends, I can think of only one in that range. Most of them are probably 4’8 or thereabouts. If it was really only a couple inches after that, we’d have an awful lot more sun 5 foot tall women walking around than we actually do.

well, your premise is flawed - "10-11" isn't average

a quick search says it DROPPED to 11.9

Anonymous wrote:Dh is 6’3 and has two sisters who are 5’1 and 5’2. Genetics are weird! Height is a hard thing to predict. His dad is 6’0 and his mom is 5’5.

Zero things wrong with being a short girl!

Interesting. Would you have married him if he got the short genes? Say he was 5'5 and his sisters were 6'0?

Don’t most girls get their periods at 10-11. Very few 10 year olds are even 5 feet tall. Among my Dads friends, I can think of only one in that range. Most of them are probably 4’8 or thereabouts. If it was really only a couple inches after that, we’d have an awful lot more sun 5 foot tall women walking around than we actually do.

4 inches so far. DD started her period at 10 though and was one of her first signs of puberty. She was 5 feet and now 5’4. I imagine she’s done.

I was the same. Started at 11 and was only 4’8 at the time. I grew another 6 inches.

How many inches did you all see when say had growth spurt before? 4+ ?

Anonymous wrote:Title says it all. DD just got her period. Has never had a big growth spurt and is about 5 inches shorter than expected adult height based on parental height.

I don't get the "based on parental height" bit. You know that isn't how it works right?

About 3.5 inches.

Anonymous wrote:Title says it all. DD just got her period. Has never had a big growth spurt and is about 5 inches shorter than expected adult height based on parental height.

2 inches max

Dh is 6’3 and has two sisters who are 5’1 and 5’2. Genetics are weird! Height is a hard thing to predict. His dad is 6’0 and his mom is 5’5.

Zero things wrong with being a short girl!

One inch and got her period at 11 (just turned 11)

I grew 2.5 inches after getting my period at 12.5.

Anonymous wrote:
They're not expected to grow a lot, a couple of inches at most.

And it's actually quite common for girls to be shorter than BOTH their parents.

Look up something called “regression towards the mean” OP