a daughter really big for her age

[HAPPYMOM363]

She is only 11 and 176cm and 84kg. I am only 155cm and 45kg. It looks really odd She plays basketball and netball and does really well.

It's impossible to find age appropriate cloths.

She used to hate being this big but now she loves it. Would she stop growing or grow up a few more inches??

Aren't somersaults the same as forward rolls? I've seen pre-schoolers perform them.

I am 5 foot 7 (compared to the OP's dd who is 5 foot 7.5 inches and plenty of fat at 10 stone. Lol

@HAPPYMOM363 not really lead lined bones! Just borrowing a PPs phrase to say I'm heavy boned.

Pikapikachu, Op explained she jumps, somersaults and lands. Not a forward roll.

She also is. She has very large wrist and wide back.

The more you say OP the more I think she needs checking out. She is exceptionally tall for her age, especially as you say her parents aren’t so much. Take her to the GP to make sure there’s no underlying medical reason for her height - then you’re not making comments about her weight. She must have realised she is a lot taller than her peers, hopefully it won’t be a big deal for her to pop to the GP about this.

And there is a reason that children so tall are recommended for specialist referral - because the issues are more complex than parents, teachers, random people on the internet or even your GP are expected to investigate.

yeah. I would take her to a doctor.

• @picklemepopcorn what is lead lined bones. Are they harmfull*

WTAF is this thread

@pikapikachu
Aren't somersaults the same as forward rolls? I've seen pre-schoolers perform them

No- this is a somersault. Obviously the taller and heavier you are the harder it is as you need to jump very high to give yourself time to rotate. It isn’t an easy skill for trained gymnasts, so o/p’s dd doing it easily outside a gym environment is very impressive.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwNb6xIMWqo

Not according to a concerti on chart for cms to feet. You said she was 176cms, which is 5ft 7 and 1/2 ins.

The chart is wrong, or has been misinterpreted.

176 cms equates to just over 69 inches or 5'9" and a bit.

Once again the BMI and rugby players out in force.

Many many children do lots of sports and are very fit and healthy but aren’t exceeding everything on the BMI scale. That’s why it’s different.

How is posting a picture of an adult male at the same height and weight helpful? Clearly it’s completely different.

OP I’m glad you’re not brushing this under the carpet. My children are all on the short side (and boys) so I’m not in a place to compare, but it’ll be good to get a professional opinion regardless.

waves as a tall sturdy muscly girl.

People saying 'that's huge!' My god how rude
are you?

BMI means shite if you are as muscly and fit and large framed.

I was told this same message all the way through puberty by my smal thin mother, by doctors etc. It's horrible to hear. And no matter how much weight I tried to lose I never felt better. Only weaker. Lost my pace, my strength etc.

Crucially hardly lost any weight even when trying really hard. The reason I couldn't lose weight is unknown to me but I always ate healthily and not excessively.

Have come to the conclusion (alongside my doctor) is that I'm just built like a brick shithouse. As is my dad. And he cycles, lifts weights and walks his dogs miles, so he's fit too.

What I'm trying to say is please don't let other adults tell her she's 'huge' or male her feel like a beast when you objectively are telling us she's fit as a fiddle. It can be really damaging to a teenage brain.

@BravoStrong I was trying to make the point that it’s a huge volume of muscle you need to carry to bring up your BMI - and very unlikely to be the case for an 11 year old girl. He is a similar height / weight despite much heavier bones. If an 11 year old is packing an extra 30kg of muscle that in itself needs a medical assessment, and her height needs to be reviewed regardless of if it’s fat or muscle she’s carrying.

Reading the replies I'm very shocked at some people's attitudes. People are built differently. I am very heavy for my size and can be 13 stone and a slim looking size 12 (5'7) but I'm currently around 15 stone and a size 14. Visceral fat (fat around my organs) is 8 which is in normal range and there's not a lot of flab. Just solid.

I'm 5ft 9 and would be around a size 12 at 13 stone. Depends where she carried her weight

How? I'm the same height as the OP's daughter exactly and have to be around 11 stone to be a 12.

I knew when I saw this all the 5'5 and 8 stone pearl clutchers would be out in force. Tall people do weigh more and some people are bigger build.

Seeing the exudes made on this thread is really helping me understand why the UK is so ridiculously overweight.

@Looneytune253 you’re an adult. Not an 11 year old who clearly isn’t through puberty yet. It is completely different.

@PinkDaffodil2 I apologise but your post didn’t read like that. Going back only your final sentence says ‘if she looks like this guy you should take her to a doc’ (paraphrased!).

84kg for that height is only slightly towards the heavier end of normal BMI. She’s fit and healthy and active, that’s far more important. As long as she’s not feasting on junk she’ll be fine.

Not according to the NHS
I entered the details In OPs post and this has come out.

I am another one who is 5foot 7 and I weigh a lot, no one ever believes me when I tell them as I am a size 10-12.
When I weight 10 stone there is nothing of me at all and a size 6 falls of me, the shape of someone's body and build makes such a difference to weight and how it's carried.

My fiscal fat is a 3 which is very good and I am fit but have always weighed on the heavier side. ( I am pregnant right now and haven't put on any weight so far)

I'm really disappointed with some of the comments that have been posted here today.
OP's DD sounds amazing, she's clearly extremely fit & sporty and regularly performs at a high level.
Every normal distribution curve has stats at either end; some people are teeny & some are big.
I think that she has the potential to be a seriously high achieving woman!
From a PPs earlier comment on symptoms, she doesn't have Acromegaly (excess growth hormone) which is a great relief, although obviously that can only be confirmed by an Endocrinologist.

OP, to gain some clarity & ensure your DDs future health, please discuss her weight & height with her GP.

I would also strongly advise you to follow the Endocrinology route to ensure no problems there (this includes acromegaly & also others conditions).

Further, if she has any non-injury related aches & pains, make a note of them as they may be related to bone growth & need following up by an appropriate consultant.

(I speak from experience of unrelated diseases of excess bone growth as a child followed by hormonal deficiencies as an adult. Both have had psychological impacts & I wouldn't wish them on anyone.)

And please, keep her confidence up - in my opinion she is someone to be so proud of & not to be criticised at all because she doesn't fit into a standardised package!

If she can really do a standing somersault then I think it is rather unlikely that she is medically obese.

Has she started her period and if so how long ago? Assuming she is physically a woman (ie is post-pubertal) then she's heavy for her height, but perhaps she is just an outlier. BMI is an appropriate screening tool for the general population but it isn't appropriate for some groups of people (such as sportspeople with an unusually high muscle mass).

It is likely that her coaches are better at assessing her physical health than random people on the internet but it wouldn't hurt to get her checked by her GP.

I would want to rule out any medical causes. Some genetic disorders cause people to become unusually tall or heavy.

If she can really do a standing somersault then I think it is rather unlikely that she is medically obese

The upward force and speed you’d need to propel 13 st into the air to a height where you have time and space to rotate a 5’9 length 360 is phenomenal, even tucked into a ball.

You’re talking olympic athlete standard. There’s a reason gymnasts are tiny- if you’re tall and heavy you need to be ridiculously strong and fast to compensate.

And considering o/p’s dd is not a gymnast it’s an incredible feat.

Can you imagine even lifting 84kg, let alone throwing it fast into the air?

Op are you in the UK or another country?