AIBU to tell dd she is likely to grow more?

Why do you feel the need to have this conversation with her?

My puberty was very back to front. My period came quite a while before boobs and hair.
I was very nearly 12 when my period started, and perhaps grew another 2 inches after that, but am still only 5"3!

I read that, on average, a girl grows two and a half inches taller in the couple of years following her first period, then she will stop growing.
(This theory has been borne out in my own experience ie: me, my friends and family, my daughter and her friends.)

I started my period at 11 and stopped growing at 12. I'm 5ft. so I was quite tall for my age at the point. My mum is only 4ft 10 though so I was never going to be huge!!

Girls usually stop growing about 2 years after their first period. So yes, I’d think she’d grow more considering she hasn’t had her first one yet!

I started my period at 12 and did stop growing then - I'm about 5ft tall and honestly my height has never been an issue in my life.
Other than sometimes having to get clothes altered and needing to ask people to reach things for me in supermarkets 😆
On the plus side I can still buy kids clothes and shoes...

My sister was several years older than I was starting her periods and she has ended up considerably taller than me.

I have 2 DDs, both had 1st periods around 12.
Oldest followed the wives tales, she grew quite a lot shortly before and was about 5'4 when she had her 1st period. She is now 5'7 as an adult.
With 2nd DD she was about 5'4 too but grew constantly throughout. She didn't slow down and is now 5'11 at 18 and still growing (she is measured every 3 months in hospital).
Although my Dad was 6'5 and my brother is 6'4 so she gets her height from here. I'm 5'5😂

I got my period early at ten, so I definitely grew after that. However I stopped growing around thirteen and am still pretty short.

Oh I didn't mean it would be the case for everyone, just that it might give some clues, it did in my case!

That's great though, quite helpful I imagine! It was a nightmare trying to find shoes to fit me back then as most shops didn't sell anything bigger than a size 7. Fortunately it's easier these days, though some places still don't! 😀

She's of more or less average height for a 13-year-old girl and nobody can possibly say how much she'll grow. Periods are irrelevant; I only had one 'growth spurt' as a child and it happened when was about 13 - two years after I started my periods and three years after I started needing a bra.

I haven't grown an inch since my 14th birthday - I was a short pre-teen, then an average height 14-year-old, and then a short adult.

Not that it matters, people don't tend to judge women much on height like they do with men. I'm barely an inch taller than your daughter and it's really not an issue, ever.

Is there a specific issue with her being short? None of you will know if she'll grow any more? I'm 5ft so I'm just wondering why it is an issue to reassure her about?

My DD is 15 and has had period for about a year. I think she is still growing. She;s about 5ft 4 now.

My feet stopped growing at size 3 aged 11, my height continued to grow until I was 18, I am 5ft8, gained a shoe size during my 40s though!!!

I carried on growing for several years after my first period, I even gained an inch during upper sixth form and then stopped growing.

I was the tallest girl in my class at primary, then my feet stopped growing around year 7, and my friends all overtook me in height in year 8 and 9. My Mum stopped growing at 11, I was already taller than her so we assumed I had stopped growing around year 8, then I started growing again after most of my friends had stopped.

I had quite a few things bought on the basis I had stopped growing and they would last (eg a bike, and an expensive waterproof coat) that were hopelessly outgrown and had to be passed to my sister.

I was 5ft 7 in year 6 and didn’t grow anymore, I didn’t start my period until I was 13..

I was suddenly eyeball to eyeball with my mum at age 12 1/2, one month before my first period. So I would have been about 5 foot 3. I ended up 5 foot 5 1/2.

I don’t think I grew after age 15. So a growth spurt just before the first period then another 2 years of slower growth sounds right,

I always thought it was roughly 2 years after you started your first. That you stopped growing. I think that stands for me and my daughters roughly.

I’ve been the same (short) height since I was 11 and had my period at 14

Think I was 13 when dad bought me a new bike, which I could just manage on tip toes at the lowest seat setting. He said dont worry, I will grow into it.

Its now many years later and I still havent grown into it!

So no your daugher may or may not grow more.

I was 13.5 when my periods started, and around 5'3 tall like my mother but I had size 8 feet to her size 5. I then had a big growth spurt and at 14 I was 5'8. I grew another couple of inches over the next few years, and finally stopping at 5'10 aged 18. I don't know where the height came from; the women in my family tend to be quite short.

I grew a lot after my periods started.

I started my periods at 14, I think I was probably about 5'4 at the time. I grew several inches at 15-16 and don't think I stopped growing completely until I was about 17-18, at 5'9.

How big are her feet? As someone else said, the clues were there - I had size 8 feet by the time I was 12 and reckon I couldn't have been more than about 5'2 at that age. They felt so out of proportion at the time, it never occurred to me that the rest of me would catch up!

DD was the tallest girl in her school at 10 and the shortest by age 13 (in a huge secondary school).
She stopped growing at 11, having started her periods at 10.

So your theory might be right, but I can also confirm that not all girls continue growing through their teens.

As mother of a short daughter, I would suggest not fixating on her height, though.

There maybe some truth dc1 was about 5’2 at 11 when started periods. Now 5’6 and stopped growing around 13. So within 2 years. However if you look at growth charts girls commonly stop/slow at lot by 14.
Dc2 started periods at 10y6. Was already approx 5’4. But i guess could grow the 4 inches her sibling did so max 5’8.
the growth charts would gave her as over 6 foot as shes off the chart over 99th centile at moment.