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Had my almost 4 yo weighed the other day


In a year she has grown by 10cm and 1 kg


75% centile for height, 25th for weight, prev 50th and 25th


She isn't ridiculously skinny or anything and she eats very well ... But I can't quite get my head around how she could have shot up by 10cm but weight hardly increased ... Do children usually do that?


Never weighed ds1 so can't compare

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F - my eldest was like that - now at 7 she is finally heavy - ie I struggle to lift her, but for a long time she was such a string bean. I think to some extent it's a 'girl thing' where boys are often much chunkier - though there are always exceptions to the rule of course.

I don't really worry about charts (never get my babies weighed after 6w check!)

But it's just because the asthma clinic weighed her and being a statistical sort of girl, it set my mind wandering where the extra inches have come from, you know!


I guess she has actually slimmed down, lOst the cute toddler chub

I've noticed that children often grow in spurts that alternate between upward growth and outward growth. We've definitely seen it in our child too, and GP confirmed it's normal. Minder's idea about the energy requirements for upward growth is very interesting. I would imagine that bone growth is highly energy consuming.
I was just thinking about this thread and along the lines of Saffron's post - my son always grows out and then up. And at the moment, he is eating like a horse and his tummy is going back to his pre-12month level of chubb, so thinking a few cms may be around the corner! It would make sense that other babies go the other way, prioritising height over weight. We are a family of fairly short people so not holding my breath for a 6-footer...
We have found this pattern in our 3 yr old so far. She got chubby, growing out of clothes round the middle, then got taller and skimmed down, actually fitting back in to some things, sometimes a pair of shoes would fit for 3 months, then the next be grown out of in 6 weeks. New baby seems to be the same, if not more so, recently going down to just above the 9th centile for weight whilst shooting up to the 98th for length! I think it makes perfect sense that getting longer uses up a lot of energy, especially when you are happy t hat your child is healthy, so not worried that it might be down to something else.

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