Height of My Son

Anu11

Hi, I am very much worried of my child height....Me and my hubby are about 150 cm...I checked my son's height in a child height predictor and it says he may be also around  150 only. My son also will be  short person????There is no solution for it...

alli2672

There's not nothing you can do about it.  Check out these Human Growth Hormones for sale at Nutrition express! 

Of course, these aren't FDA regulated and it's unknown if they are safe for children.

TheBorg7of9

I wonder why you would think his height would be different. But if your growth was stunted by malnutrition as a child, then your son could grow to be much taller.

pb&fluff

TheBorg7of9 said:

I wonder why you would think his height would be different. But if your growth was stunted by malnutrition as a child, then your son could grow to be much taller.

This.  Height is very genetic, so unless you and your husband had other circumstances, I would assume he'd be the same height.  That's what we expect of our son.

jennyelf

Try a calculator that also takes into account the current height of your kid (https://www.babycenter.com/child-height-predictor is one I found).

mommymegan831

That height predictor predicts both of my children to be 5'5.  I'm 5'2, DH is 6'2, both kids are at 90% for their height so I'm assuming they're going to be pretty tall.  I don't know why they'd ask for the gender when both my son and daughter are predicted to be the same height.  I'm just going to wait and see, but I'm not going to sweat it.

2chatter

Hormones are pretty commonly prescribed these days for boys.  When my middle fell off the growth chart the poor ped got a semi-rant from me when he said "well, if she was a boy"....and that turned into a conversation about aesthetic pressures, etc. that was pretty interesting.  Apparently many families choose hormones for sons and leave the girls short. 

Mustardseed2007

This is a very long, but we're currently dealing with this "issue" if you can call it that.

I'm very short (4ft 10) and my husband is slightly below average in height for a guy (5ft 10). We have a strong family history of short stature on my side - my dad is 5ft 1, and I have an adult (21 year old) nephew who is 4 ft. 9.

My son and daughter are both certainly going to be short - DS (3) is in the 3rd percentile and DD (10 mos) is in the 5th. I would be lying if I said it wasn't a concern. Particularly b/c I know how very short my nephew is, and TBH it has effected him with dating. It has not effected him with friendships much, though I know it's something he was teased about and he himself now jokes about it often. Jobwise it's hard to tell since he's still in school.

For DS, we actually have been referred to an endocrinologist by our pediatrician but I haven't made the appointment yet. If we go that route, he'll be checked for any medical issues and then they'll discuss with us whether he's got the potential to be "treated" for just a family history. I put that in quotes because, really, it's not a medical problem per se.

It sounds like you aren't in the US (just guessing since you used centimeters instead of inches) but I've been told the standard right now for "treating" for a boy is if you are below 5ft 3 inches.

However, the only "treatment" that I know of right now is growth hormones which give you very little extra in height - an average of 3 inches, which means it could be less or it could be a little more. DS is slated to be 5ft 3 right now. My nephew did growth hormones for a period of time but did not follow through because the treatments were expensive, time consuming and uncomfortable (weekly shots that he had to get at a hospital that was 45 minutes away from his home). Mostly it was money-my sister doesn't have any.

We are still considering whether or not we will go the GH route if it's available for DS. DH is against it, and as a person who is actually well below average in height, I'm on the fence.

There is a lot of evidence out there right now that even though kids who are short are teased about it, they still do well socially and academically and they go on to have success in life. Also, kids who are treated for their height are more likely to experience depression than kids who aren't treated.

I would do some more research and talk to your pediatrician about it.

DH thinks that for our son if we emphasize to him throughout his life that there are lots of people out there who are short and successful, it will make more of a positive difference to him than treating with hormones as if there is something medically wrong with him when there really isn't. I think he may be right. I just also know anecdotally that going through life as a very short person carries it's own, very real  challenges. Then again, I feel like I'm a pretty successful person. I'm sure you feel that way as well since you indicated you and your H are both on the shorter side.

Oh and on the girl vs boy issue - I hear the same kind of thing in our family all the time. Like perhaps it wouldn't matter so much if my nephew was a girl etc. Honestly, though, 4ft 9 or 4ft 10 is short, anyway you slice it.

MommyAtty

Hey, @Mustardseed2007‌ your Hubster is above average. Average is 5'9.2 in the US. I only know this because my Hubster at 6'2 always claims he's short, so I keep that statistic at hand.

Mustardseed2007

@mommyatty - Hey thanks for that! I always have informally felt that way, but whenever we've talked to a doctor about DS's height they ask how tall we are and then respond with "okay so you're both short".

I mean, he's a foot taller than me so I obviously don't feel like he's short at all. It's good to know he really isn't, lol!

MommyAtty

We have the opposite problem. I'm 5'10 and hubby is 6'2. The height predictor of doubling height on the second birthday says DD will be 5'11. DS isn't there yet (8 mos old), but that child is a moose! I feel sorry for DD. It's hard being a tall girl. It gets easier once you're a full-fledged grown up, but adolescence is rough.

Genetics are what they are, though. Short parents are going to have short kids generally. Tall parents are going to have tall kids generally. If I wanted a shorter daughter, I should have married a shorter man and hoped for the best.

traveltheworld

I'm glad I'm not the only one obsessing over this.  I'm 5'3, DH is 5'8 and DS (2.5) is in the 3rd percentile for height.  DH is the only "short" person in his entire extended family - his brother and all of his cousins are well over 6 feet.  I'm also by far the shortest person in my extended family; so hopefully DS will grow taller.  We probably won't do anything medically about it, but nevertheless, I obsess.

alli2672

The OP is spam, right? 

sdlaura

traveltheworld said:

I'm glad I'm not the only one obsessing over this.  I'm 5'3, DH is 5'8 and DS (2.5) is in the 3rd percentile for height.  DH is the only "short" person in his entire extended family - his brother and all of his cousins are well over 6 feet.  I'm also by far the shortest person in my extended family; so hopefully DS will grow taller.  We probably won't do anything medically about it, but nevertheless, I obsess.

My DH and I are the exact heights of you and your DH.  Somehow our kids are tall though. DD (2.5) and DS (almost 1) have always been 90+ percentile for height.  Many people in our families have "peaked early" in terms of height, so them being tall now likely doesn't mean much.

MommyAtty

I am so glad this is spam. I was having such a hard time believing anyone was that unknowledgeable about heredity.

On a weird personal note, when I was 2, doctors told my parents after measuring my growth plates, etc, that I would likely never even hit 5 feet. My maternal grandma was only 4'9, so my parents thought I was taking after her. I'm so glad they didn't give me any HGH. Between 10th grade and graduating high school, I grew from 5'4 to 5'9. I added an inch in college. I'm 3 inches taller than my mother.

lexusolsen

I have a cousin with Turner's syndrome, which meant that she would be very short. My aunt and uncle gave her HGH to get her into the same (short) range as the rest of our family. I'm 5'1, her sister is 4'11 and she is 4'10.