Dd3 is 8, will be 9 in February.
She's always had a good appetite but I try to feed all my family a relatively healthy diet with a few treats here and there.
She's been wearing clothes a size or two bigger for her age for a while but I wasn't unduly concerned. However I have just measured her height and weight:
Height 135cm (75th percentile)
Weight 37.5 kg (91st percentile)
Should I be worried? I'm wondering now if I've let her get overweight by not monitoring portion sizes. It's very difficult if I give her a meal and she then says she's still hungry after eating it.
I'm very aware of the whole body image thing especially for girls and I haven't said anything to her. And I certainly don't want to give her the message that she mustn't eat too much or she'll get overweight.
This is what she eats in a typical day:
Breakfast - large bowl of (dry) cereal, cup of milk, then waffles or a crumpet
Lunch - either school lunch (not keen on them, don't think she eats much), if at home normally a cream cheese sandwich
After school - snack of couple of biscuits, pack of oddities/mini cheddars, mini flavoured rice cakes
Dinner - home cooked e.g. roast chicken, salmon with rice, sometimes pasta with pesto or cheese, cheese omelette, chicken noodle stir fry etc. Then fruit and/or a yoghurt
Any advice please?
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Should I be worried about dd's weight?
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Dancergirl · 01/01/2016 13:01
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