A bit worried about DDs weight

[OhdearNigel]

DD is 19 months old, we weighed her last week at my MIL and she weighs 2 stone. This takes her I think onto the 91st centile.
She has always (on the rare occassions I had her weighed) been around the 50th centile and was on about 45 on her 1 year HV check.
She is very tall, taller than her boy cousin who is only 23 hours younger than her. She eats a varied and healthy diet, she has a few treats (eg a bourbon biscuit on wednesday afternoons when we go to the park) but on the whole eats lots of pulses, grains, pasta, fish, veggies and fruit. She also breastfeeds quite a lot
In the last few weeks I have really noticed how much bigger (not fatter, just bigger all over) she is than other children her age, we saw a lady who was at our original birth group yesterday and Kitty looks so much bigger and older than her son that I am starting to feel a bit worried. We were talking to an old lady in the park yesterday and she asked how old K is - when I said 19 months she was really surprised and said she thought she was a lot older than that.

We have weight issues in our families and I am very conscious to try and give her the best possible start with her diet, trying to tread a path between letting her eat anything and being too restrictive.

I haven't seen the HV since January and am thinking about going to the next clinic so that I can get her properly weighed and ask them about it. Do you think I will be wasting their time ?

I know this isn't strictly an AIBU topic but as there is already a HV topic I thought I would get prompt thoughts here !

My DD was on 95th centile and was huge. She is now 3 and a half and has model skinny legs. I used to panic about it but trust me when they get moving they will run it off.

Dd is four and weighs four stone. She has always followed the top centile. Shes in age ten to eleven clothes and size twelve shoes but not fat in the slightest. It is just a bit alarming to think your four year old is that heavy, double the weight of her friends.

age ten to eleven clothes at four! she must be tall.

her feet arent that big tho, my ds4 who is 3 has feet about that size and my elder boys feet are almost as big as mine (they are 6 and 9yrs)

ds1 is 12 and his feet are bigger than mine and he is about the same height as me.

all my boys have been big, big at birth and continued that way, along the top of the percentil lines, the middle two are skinny minnies tho!

I thought DS2 was big being in 7-8yr old clothes but ten - eleven at 4 wow!

DD is 5 and weighs 4st and 121cm tall, she is very tall in relation to her class mates and looks like she is seven.
Her birth weight was 9lb 13oz, and 59 cm long so she has always been the higher percentile, she never lost weight, and I remember she was born on tuesday and sunday after, was her first weigh in, midwife who weighed her said at the time she had put on just under 300g in five days, reassuring us she is that kind of a baby.
We had a chat with DD's doctor, and HV and all of them took her weight in relation to her height and birth weight, none seem too concerned.
Your DD sounds a healthy girl, you can certainly watch her snacks and portion sizes, but try not to make her aware or self conscious in the near future, when she is older take her swimming, get her on the bike, and in general have her outdoors and active as much as possible, she sounds lovely
She will be a tall girl, lucky her.

I understand the concern. I had the same with dd1 who was big for her age and inlaws run to fat. I've just looked up and she was roughly the same. I have been careful about what she eats, but then she had pneumonia a couple of years ago and lost so much weight she was under doctors observation for being underweight, and not growing. (dropped from nearly 97% to 25%)

The height thing can be a little misleading. I found there is research that if you overfeed (not saying you do) a child they tend to grow early. So you look at them and say "it's okay, they're tall too". But then they hit a point where they stop growing upwards for a bit but then fill out and then become fat, particularly if they continue overeating.
I think that's basically what happened to dd1, as in she grew early because she ate loads, but then she stopped growing.
It's similar for underfeeding, in that they tend not to grow as much, the difference is they don't make up the height generally.

Size 5 sounds small if anything for a 19 month shoes, dd2 was 4 1/2 when she got her first pair at 10 months. Dd1 would have been about size 5 at 19 months and she's always had smaller feet than her classmates.

If it's any comfort dn was heavier than that at a year. Although parents think it's a matter of pride and will tell you how he ate their whole pizza after he had eaten his meal first, and then continue to give him pudding. I suspect they'll go mad the first time some health person points out he's over weight.

10-11 at 4 is amazing! DS is in 8-9 and size 1 shoes. When he stands in his primary 2 line he is a head taller than the rest of them

At 5 months my DS was 20lbs! I'd hoped to use a sling longer than that but it proved impossible

But he stayed in proportion, always being 1 year older in clothes than his chronological age.

Till now. He's 12 and only 5 foot and 7 stone. Has not had a growth spurt yet, I am a bit concerned because I was the same size as him at 12 (tallest in the class) and only grew another 2 inches total. But now in adulthood I am 5 stone heavier!

My DS is 15 months,he weighs 2 stone,takes a 5 shoe and is very tall.
He has been in hospital with wheezing and they always weigh children on arrival. His weight has never been mentioned as a concern and as he's tall he's in proportion which sounds similar to your DD.
He has always been way off the charts for height,they can't even put a dot on the page. His half brother is 15 years old and 6ft 2 so I think DS will be the same.
It sounds like your DD has a varied and healthy diet.

I have got an image of all these toddlers in adult size 5 shoes :o

Both of mine (but particularly DD2) are very tall for their ages. Their dad is 6'4" so no surprise there. Your DD has clearly inherited her dad's tall genes - try not to worry

DD2 hit 100 cm at just two and took a size 8 - she is now 8 and wears an adult size 3 (but is very skinny).

DD1 was more normal height, just a bit above average until last year - she is now 10.8, wears an adult size 4.5 and is 4ft 10, weight within normal range.

I'm 5.11, but my father if he had not had rickets would have been 6.9 so some tall genes in the family. With my family being Dutch-American I tend to disregard the UK centile charts as you Brits do tend to be short!

pointy I always feel like shortarse in Hollnd with my very tall Dutch DP. I get a crick in my neck with all his mates!!

I would tend to agree with the majority, if her height is in proportion then I wouldn't worry.

And DON'T use clothes as a measure! My boys are 2.7 now, both on the 50th centile for weight (and have always been once corrected as slightly prem) but slightly over on height. They were wearing pyjamas age 12-18 months yesterday, they fit fine. They have always lasted a lot longer in clothing than I would have expected.

I wish DD would have more use out of her clothes

Please don't follow the nhs bmi link as bmi is only an indicator for non-sporty non-pregnant adults. Children should have a much lower bmi than adults. Dd us also at the top of the weight charts but as she is there for height too then I annoy concerned (she's got a cracking pair of rugby player legs mind!)

Annoy=am not. Sorry

Can someone explain this please, I really have never been able to work it out.

At 3 years and 11 months:

your child is 58.8 pounds, and that is
at greater than the 97th percentile for weight.

your child is 45 inches, and that is
at greater than the 97th percentile for height.

So what does this actually mean? I mean I know he is bigger than average for his age but is that it??

And is that a major issue considering his actual birth weight although he was premature and had an approx birth weight predicted of 10lb+?

The NHS bmi wizard thingy has been adapted to be suitable for children bulby. You enter their age and sex as well as height and weight, so it isn't any different from the charts in the red books we are all given. It doesn't tell you children's bmi, just what percentile they are in and whether they are in the healthy, overweight or obese range.

DS was weighed and measured at Cons apt last week (allergies). Is is bang on 50%tile for height and weight but being youngest in school year is actually one of the smallest still.

As a baby he was always higglety pigglety. 8lb3 at birth and 56cm!

He followed the 25% for head circ, 50th for height and 75th+ for weight, then switched weight and height over and evened at at average for both at 4yo.

I am showing the actual details to hopefully reassure you they don't always grow at an even speed (they forget to read the centile charts as well as the baby books at birth!) and the best indication is your child's overall health.

And FWIW we ARE a tall family (mine and his dads side) - DS just happens not to be tall at the moment.

themildmanneredjanitor she is 21 months old, 92 cm, blonde and chatty. As long as you consider 'my food!' 'my tree!' and 'ooooh socks' to be good topics of conversation.

If we average out my and DH's height, plus her current height, we reckon DD is going to be about 6'3, which will be hard for her as a teenager, hence busily noting all tall boys in the UK

kenobi if she doesn't mind a bit of a toyboy, I'll pass on my number for her to meet DS3 in a few years he is due on Wednesday and when i was looking back over my notes last week, I spotted that on a scan at 36 weeks they had his length down as 69cm I thought it was a typo or something, so checked the other scans but no, the one I had at 26 weeks had him down as 58cm then.

No one has mentioned his length as being out of the ordinary, just made comments about his length/abdomen ratio being low. Well dur, if his weight was proportional there would have been no space for the poor sod past about 6 months and I might have gone pop!

PiousPrat - seriously??? DD was 56cm at birth which put her at the 98th centile. That is one big boy you've got there. How are his kicks?!

I'll look out for him