Teen boys growing after age 16/17

[WillMo]

My son is 16. He's of average height at about 5'9". He is fit and sporty and feeling a little bit bothered that he hasn't reached his predicted height.

He was 175cm at age 13/14, (which put him above 90th centile) and has only increased slightly since then.

His predicted height, according to his parents' height and growth charts is around 6'. His dad is over 6' tall and I am 5'4".

He is definitely towards the end of puberty.

I'm looking for stories of late growth really and whether I should gets him looked at for any deficiencies? This might be his final height, and that is fine, but it is definitely different to what was expected!

I agree. And it’s shit. But if you could take away that judgmental about men’s height crap from all of the other angst of puberty by having sons that are ‘tall enough’, you would.

My DS is 14 and has just hit the height of his father of 5’8. After having 3 DDs it’s been an utter shock watching a boy hit puberty as he’s seems to have went from a little boy to a man in 6 months! He grew about 6 inches, his hands and feet are huge, size 10 feet. His voice broke overnight and he has facial hair. His full face shape changed too from a round boys face to an angular man’s face, even his nose has changed shape. I’m now wondering if he will grow anymore?

How's his protein intake ? I read recently that teen boys that are fed large amounts of meat eggs and Greek yogurt were taller and stronger than boys who didn't . Trying to remember where I saw it so I can link it , I do know it was a scientific paper . My son is 6'2 at 18 and is still growing and filling out

DS was tiny until yr 9, then average, now 19 and over 6ft still growing. Main growth spurt yrs 10/11 and over this summer

Protein intake is excellent I think. He has eggs for breakfast, plenty of fish and meat, avocados and lentils...

Those that say their sons were small/average and then shot up - did this happen after a time of no growth or early in puberty?

My son has a lot of hair now and shaves weekly. He's very well defined, athletic and slim. His dad is much taller and much larger all over.

He isn't entirely happy being this height, especially as he seems to have a lot of tall friends, but he may have to accept it!

Why would this be a medical thing that needs to be looked at?

OP, I think your energies would be better spent helping your son with his self esteem and body image. 5'9" at 16 is perfectly fine.
My son is 15 and about the same height. He has taller friends, he has shorter friends, he has some who don't need to shave, others who look like bears, some with little muscle, others who look like bouncers.
He does care how he looks and works out in the gym a lot, but within his friendship group there's a huge range and it's just not a problem (not that I know of anyway).

Did your son grow any more @WillMo?
My son was 16 a couple of weeks ago and is 5ft 8 and doesn’t seem to have grown for the last 10 months. He did have his main growth spurt early at about 13 ish so maybe that’s it for him. I think it’s fine as a height but he wants to be taller as he is the ‘short one’ out of his friends. Hoping for his sake and his confidence (he doesn’t have much) that he has a couple more inches to grow but not so sure.

They can keep shooting up until 20+ - one of my brother’s did

I think boys can grow until they are early 20s,
I think posts telling people they are wrong to be bothered by their child being smaller than average are unhelpful. People are bothered if their kids are bothered and men in the main prefer to be tall than small as the perception is that girls prefer that . ( which the majority probably do)