I am hopefully being a paranoid pregnant mum here. My ds does not seem to be growing very much. He was on 50th centile until about 6 months ago, measured him this week and he has dropped to the 9th. Mentioned to HV that he saves me a fortune in clothes as they wear out before he grows out of them, and still in 18mth-2yr trousers. She said that this was a bit concerning and wants to see him on Monday to see if he needs a referral to a paeditrician. He is also been referred for speech and language assessment, because whilst his vocabularly range is fine, I think many people find him hard to understand because he lisps.
I realise that unfortunately he is inevitably compared to his older sister (7) who has always, since birth been on the 98th centile, and was always very advanced in speech and development. Its hard to know what is normal.
He comes from a tall family, I am considerd the runt of the litter at at 5'5". On both sides, apart from me all females are a mimimum of 5'10, and all men minimum of 6'. Myabe he has just inherited my genes (although I was tall as a child).
I know some on here have similarly tall childen like dd, but has anyone had this issue with smaller children when it doesnt fit a family pattern?
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Worrying mum - is my 3 year old too small?
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pinkmama · 10/05/2005 12:19
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