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Anyone else's baby not stay on a growth curve?

TinaS2012TinaS2012 member
in June 2013 Moms
My daughter has been constantly up and down on the growth chart for height. Doctor was concerned until her 1yr check up when she was up slightly, but now she is down again. right now she is in the 3%. she started at 89%.
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Re: Anyone else's baby not stay on a growth curve?

  • TinaS2012TinaS2012 member
    No. nothing has changed. She eats everything and anything you put in front of her. She was breast milk and formula fed through bottle from birth until 1 year. (breastmilk until about 6 months) When she was born she was 20 3/4inches long and now is only 28 inches long at 14 months. She was born with Rh incompatibility and has had a ton of illnesses between 2 months and now. but has always been a great eater.
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  • Cricket81Cricket81 member
    How has her weight chart been? Is it just height that's dropping or both?
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  • TinaS2012TinaS2012 member
    6/20/2013:89% 7/22/2013:53% 8/22/2013:26% 10/21/2013:20% 12/20/2013:6% 3/20/2014:3% 6/20/2014:5% 8/15/2014:3%
    Those are her percentiles from birth until now. her weight has been fine. weighed 9lbs at birth and weighs 23lbs now
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  • WasNotWasWasNotWas member
    @TinaS2012‌ that sounds/looks just like ds1. He is a proportionate kid, just not particularly tall or heavy. At 3 he is only 31 lbs
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  • AZMagnini14AZMagnini14 member

    We have the same issue. Our doc isn't concerned and we aren't either. 

    Started at 9 lbs 15 oz and was 95% and is now just 23 lbs and like 15%.

    He is steadily growing just at a slow pace. His pace. As long as he's gaining its ok that its slow. He eats non stop, but he runs non stop also!

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  • itsStackieitsStackie member
    edited August 2014
    We had a similar problem, but they remeasured her on the 6month and 9month. (they thought it was an error, and the stretching while drawing a line, I find is very inaccurate.) We told the doctor we aren't tall people ourselves so when she was born in the 89th percentile, we were surprised. But like @WasNotWas‌ said she has been proportionate, and eats fine.
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  • TinaS2012TinaS2012 member
    edited August 2014
    I wouldn't be concerned about it, but the pediatrician keeps saying that they are concerned about her height. Yet they don't do anything. they just keep putting it off. They are the wait and see kind of doctors. They never act on anything. it's always wait and see. Her weight has been fine. It's staying on a nice curve on the growth chart. I guess what they were concerned about was that instead of her heigth following a curve it goes up and down.
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  • ASmallWonderASmallWonder member
    So, from a shorty let me give you my perspective.  Granted, I was young a hundred years ago and I know medical advances happen but I've had these chats with our pedi.  When I was young there was concern that I was growth hormone deficient, which is totally different from being plain short.  There are specific tests run to check for this - bone age xrays and a boatload of blood work.  The treatment if a child is found to have GHD is growth hormone injections if you choose to go that route.  It's not something to take lightly.  One of the indicators for being deficient is less than 2" of growth in a year.  Your pedi is likely taking a wait and see approach because the first year isn't a good year to judge by because their growth pattern is not at all like it will be in the coming years.  The 2" marker doesn't hold true in the first year.  What I personally would do is ask to have a "when and what" discussion.  "When would you start to be concerned?  At what point would you consider testing?  What would our next steps be?" You're going to have a 15m, 18m and 24m appointment so there's going to be lots of opportunity to keep an eye on it.
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  • TinaS2012TinaS2012 member
    edited August 2014
    ASmallWonder said:
    So, from a shorty let me give you my perspective.  Granted, I was young a hundred years ago and I know medical advances happen but I've had these chats with our pedi.  When I was young there was concern that I was growth hormone deficient, which is totally different from being plain short.  There are specific tests run to check for this - bone age xrays and a boatload of blood work.  The treatment if a child is found to have GHD is growth hormone injections if you choose to go that route.  It's not something to take lightly.  One of the indicators for being deficient is less than 2" of growth in a year.  Your pedi is likely taking a wait and see approach because the first year isn't a good year to judge by because their growth pattern is not at all like it will be in the coming years.  The 2" marker doesn't hold true in the first year.  What I personally would do is ask to have a "when and what" discussion.  "When would you start to be concerned?  At what point would you consider testing?  What would our next steps be?" You're going to have a 15m, 18m and 24m appointment so there's going to be lots of opportunity to keep an eye on it.


    I guess i'll see what goes on at her 15m check up next month and go from there. I don't really like the wait and see approach, but then again don't want to jump to anything and have a bunch of test for nothing. If the darn doctor wouldn't say that they were concerned about her height for the last 3 check ups then i wouldn't be concerned about it either. Took my 4yr old for her check up today and everyone at the doctor office kept saying how short my baby is and how they can't believe she is walking she's so short and comments like that. Some of the girls that work there didn't believe how old she was. they thought she was younger than 14m.

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  • ASmallWonderASmallWonder member
    Just remember, being short isn't always caused by something scary.  You might just have a tiny kid (which is what I always was). I could walk under my kitchen table without breaking stride until I was SIX.  People thought I was a fucking genius as a little kid because my vocabulary was out of this world for 2.  Except I was 6 lol

    I'm not trying to make light of it but just trying to make you smile :)  The reality is, if she's short there either is a reason for it that doesn't need treatment ZOMG RIGHT THIS SECOND or there's not.  Doctors are usually concerned about a kid who doesn't fit in the nice normal "average" bucket but if they were concerned for her imminent health, they wouldn't put it off.  
    Formerly known as elmoali :)

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