Anyone with kids really small for their age?

[underwaterrhymes]

My son is tiny.

He's 2 and 3 months and in the 5th percentile for height and 10th for weight. He's still wearing size 4.5 shoes and all of the other kids tower over him.

He's super cute, though. I don't think it's going to hold him back.

[mmmomof2]

I think DD1 is small. She just turned 6 and is barely 43" tall. A lot of her friends are over 48", but maybe six year olds have a big growth spurt? I'm only 5'4" and MIL is only 5'2" so I'm not expecting her to be runway model tall, but she is certainly petite. She is barely 40lbs too. DD2 is 37" maybe and around 35 pounds, but I don't see that many 3 1/2 yo on a daily basis to know how she compares.

[redheadk]

Jul 7, 2015 20:17:02 GMT -5 @starry said:

Jul 7, 2015 15:43:38 GMT -5 redheadk said:

Dd is on the smaller side. She'll be 3 next week and is 28 pounds, not sure how tall. Around 38". She's thin so people always tell me she's tall. She's not (though she's higher up in percentage for height than weight). She's about the same height as a typical young 2 year old.

wait I think 38" is typical for a 3 year old. I think it would be pretty tall for a 2 year old. DD is not quite 36" yet and even she is like 15% I think.

So maybe she really is sort of tall / completely average in height (lol)

ETA: reference.medscape.com/calculator/height-age-percentile-girls - looks like 38" at 3 years old for a girl would be 72%. @this looks like 39" for a 2 year old is 99.9% lol

I must have misremembered. She's like 15% for her age for height. I never measure her height but I weigh her periodically.

ETA: I went back to check her records and she was 32" at her 2 year appt and based on her last measurement (with shoes on) is probably between 35 and 36 inches right now (will be 3 next week). I was way off!

[vanillacourage]

DS1 is 7 and only 43 or so lbs. he's also a head shorter than most of his buddies. Oh well.

[wanderlustmom]

Yes, DS is ten and 10 percent for his height. He's usually the smallest boy in his class. In first grade, he was 5 percent so they did a bone scan. He was two years underdeveloped so he will get his height and puberty late. DD is 75 percent for height and is taller than her brother by one inch. She's eight. People comment all the time but I don't think he's bothered.

[sent]

IIRC, DD was around 19 lbs at age 1 but 30.5". She has always been tall but lean. At her 18 month appointment she appears to have caught up with her peers and is more average weight and height now, but her head was small at like 22%. LOL because a few weeks earlier I saw a 2 month old at Ikea and was like "OMG his head is the same size as DD's." She gets it from me, I have a small face.

[m1and1m]

DD is 7.5y, 42#, 45" tall. So yeah, really small for her age. She wears a size 12.5 shoe still.
She was around 50% for height and weight (and 95% for head) until 6mos when she started to drop down the charts. By 14mos she was 16#, not even at the 1%. I remember that age specifically because she was hospitalized (not specifically due to weight, but it was a factor) and tested out the wazoo for all kinds of things. Turns out she's totally fine, just tiny. And resembles a bobble-head at times with her "freakishly large head!" <---- her words, I swear

Her nickname is Tiny Tyrant and her friends call her Tiny. She hates it when other kids try to pick her up, and when kids her age treat her like she's younger but loves it when older kids take care of her. She's portable, doesn't take up much room in the bed, still fits in a 5pt harness car seat, her friends are all bigger so she gets lots of hand-me-downs, and the Stride Rite Rainbow Dash shoes come in her size so we all consider it a win.

I'm curious about all of the bone scans mentioned, though. Are there other factors making this a necessity, or is it purely a size thing? DD's pedi hasn't suggested anything like that, ever.

[thecatinthehat]

My 25 month old is 24 lbs. He was hovering around the 30th percentile for a while but he went down between the 5-10th percentile for weight at 12 months and kind stayed there. He is 50th for height.

[Deleted]

My girls are really skinny. They were in the 4/5% but have moved up recently. At 15.5 mos they barely reach 20lbs. They are tall though, in the 80%.

[genet313]

DD (5.5 months) was suspected IUGR from about 20 weeks onward.   She was 5.11 at birth, so not too teeny but definitely within IUGR territory.   She was not even on the growth charts at her 2 month appointment for weight, and 2% for height.  DR not concerned b/c she was following her own growth curve.  By 4 months, she was 5% for weight and 10% for height.  I would not be surprised if she also moved up percentiles again for her 6 month appt.  

[darnkatz]

My seven year old was only 18 pounds from 12 months to 15 months. Her doctor wasn't concerned at all because she had been on the same growth curve since birth. She is now 43 pounds and 46 inches. She is just a smaller girl.

[mrslisa]

Three of my kids are petite. DD1, DS and DD3 are all in the 10th or under percentile for height/weight. DD2 has outweighed DD1 and DS for a few years. Our pedi isn't concerned since their growth is consistent. Most of our family is tall and I am average but most hit their growth spurts late. The kids are late teethers and that can be related to late growth spurts. DD1 and DS didn't lose their first tooth until 7 years old. DD1 is eight and has only lost a few teeth. I don't expect them to be short when they are older.