Small toddlers
sozay23
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Anybody else still have a peanut? DD is 21 months old and 20 lbs. I'm not sure how tall she is now but shes hovers about 25th percentile so its really just the weight not on the charts. she is a mini DH in looks. DH was a tiny baby/kid but had late growth spurts and was totally average by mid-late teens so we think its just genetics.
DD also has asthma which I've read can cause growth delays, also inherited from her dad! And last she is the worlds pickiest eater!! I pray #2 is a good eater, it's so frustrating!!
just curious if anybody else is dealing with this. FTR her pedi is not concerned but watching her closely. He is sending us to a lung specialist due to her asthma but said all the scary stuff regarding lungs and growth issues, like cystic fibrosis, is screened for at birth here so not to worry.
Re: Small toddlers
we are almost 13 months and just hit 18 pounds. according to WHO data, he is in the lower 3rd percentile for weight. He is 28" long, and thats around the 25th percentile.
we havent come into any health related problems yet, but his pedi did say since he still has some excema, we may have childhood asthma... so we will see about how that one goes...
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DD2 is small - she has ranged anywhere from 2% to 12% on the growth chart for weight. At 12 months she was only 17.5 lbs, and now at 20 months she is around 21-22 lbs.
We saw a pedi GI several months ago because her weight gain was erratic and nearly stopped between 12 and 15 months. GI declared her perfectly healthy but believes she has a constitutional growth delay. Instead of her growth following a curve as is "normal," she is making her own pattern on the growth charts. Her growth spurts are also slightly delayed, and she could have a delayed onset to puberty (which we obviously won't know until it happens). She's a great eater most of the time, but high energy and burning off calories as fast as she eats them, which isn't helping her situation
DD1 Feb 2010
DD2 Sept 2011
Argh, that is so frustrating! The only person who ever makes me feel uncomfortable about my son's size is my MIL. I think she knows that he's healthy and just on the small side (we've told her repeatedly that his doctor isn't concerned about his weight), but I guess she isn't able to control her worrying ... Whenever she's hear I swear she is CONSTANTLY shoveling food in his face and commenting about how little he eats. (Which frankly isn't true! He eats plenty!)
Honestly, I would rather him be small for his age than big. My godson (3 years old) has been off the charts for most of his life, and people always think he's five years old. It's rough for him (and his mom) because people expect him to have the abilities of a child two years older. I'm glad my little boy won't have to deal with that!
The same thing happens to me. My friend always comments how small my DS is. My friend's 9 month old DS is bigger than my 14 month old DS, but her son is off the charts in weight/height. My DS's height has always been about 50%, but his weight has been about 5-10%. Last week at 14 months he weighed 19.5 pounds. I was never on the charts growing up and was always small. My DH is only 5'5". I'm not too concerned.
DS is smallish but not particularly so. DD was above average weight at birth (41+ weeks) and then started trending toward 10-20th percentile for height and weight around the end of the first year. I remember I turned her carseat around before 18 months (before I knew better, and DH was antsy about it) and then felt guilty because she hadn't hit 20 pounds by her 18 month appointment. I talked to my MIL about it and most of her kids were large babies at birth - bigger than mine, 9 pounds or more - who trended toward the bottom of the charts for a few years and eventually turned out normal, and healthy all along. DD is still smallish for her age and stands out because she's also the youngest in her kindergarten class, but she holds her own and I think she's starting to tend toward a more normal size.