High percentile child

[rickandmorts]

Hi everyone, just wanting advice off people with high percentile children. My daughter is just under 7 months and weighs 10.1kg and is 99th percentile. I guess I'm a little concerned because I found my red book from when I was a baby and I weighed the same at 14 months and I'm tall (5'10). So does this mean by daughter will be really really tall or does it even out?

I'm on a car seat safety group too and someone posted their child who's 17 months and weighs 10kg! Just worried my baby is huge if a child a whole 10 months older weighs the same. The HV reassured me that if she's still in the percentiles then she is classed as normal and will crawl/ run her weight off when she starts being more mobile. Just want other people's experiences with high % babies and if this was the case with them? Thanks

My DH was a very chubby baby, and tall in his class through primary. Everyone else overtook him through secondary school and he's now around 5'6/7"ish and small framed (he has a 28" waist)

We are the end of the spectrum. at 18 months my daughter is only 8.5kg! But the doctor just said someones gotta be the ends of the percentile and as long as they're following their trajectory that's what matters and she's just naturally petite.

I find the percentiles to be mostly rubbish, they don’t account for genetics or diet which play a huge part in babies height and weight.

My daughter was very high percentile and classed as obese in weight but there wasn’t an ounce of fat on her! She has parents who are both 6ft and she’s extremely tall for her age and eats a natural plant based diet but they only focused on her weight. I opted out right then and there.

The percentiles aren’t rubbish - but how people use them might be rubbish. Percentile charts are nothing more than a statistical representation of the spread of heights and weights across the population at a range of ages. They include a full selection of people of all genetics and nutrition - it’s not an idealised plot of where one should be. It just says “if you’re this weight, or this height, or this combination of the two, at a certain age, then you’re in the smallest one percent of the typical population, or the tallest quarter, or heaviest one percent” or whatever the chart says. It doesn’t say “if you aren’t in the middle you’re wrong”.

The data can be applied in all sorts of ways and how it’s used can be appropriate or inappropriate. And sometimes a total mismatch between height and weight percentiles can be a reason to be cautious, but it’s just about seeing where people sit in the range.

yes and no. they're pretty useless when comparing one child to another but they're better used when comparing a child to itself. eg whether they're following the correct trajectory or whether theyre weight/height is moving significantly up or down the percentiles