Can’t stop worrying about DD weight

[Napqueen1234]

Advice please. DD is and always has been 91st centile +. Now 2 and easily 37lb+. Super active, healthy home cooked food, treats v occasional but not often at all. Doesn’t have pudding at nursery has fruit instead. There’s not an awful lot I can do to help decrease her weight. Trouble is she’s gone from cute chubby baby to gorgeous but quite chubby toddler and I worry I’m setting her up for health issues. Anyone in a similar position that resolved itself? When I say active she walk/runs everywhere park at least daily + other activities, in nursery which is v active full time. I just notice she is considerably bigger than other children her age and it causes me no end of worry.

I don't understand all this centile

Centile means where they are in 100. So 91st centile for example, means she weighs more than 91% of children.

What lovely hair she has.

I'm so sorry as I realise this is an odd and entirely inappropriate response to a stranger's child on the internet but Oh my goodness her thighs! I want to bite them!!! She's gorgeous and to me just looks like a chunky little monkey with puppy fat. I would just monitor it over the next 12 months as she grows. My reckoning is she'll elongate and grow out of it.

Both my kids were above the 91st for weight, for at least their first 2 years. DD (9) is now bean pole thin and the tallest in her year at school, DS (5) is suddenly shooting up and all the extra podge he's been carrying has literally disappeared to the point that his ribs stick out. Both kids have healthy diets and currently eat like they've never been fed, but both are extremely active.

Your daughter is too young for you to be worrying about this now.

She is a beautiful child, just monitor her over time but she looks perfect to me.

She’s gorgeous.

@AnastasiaVonBeaverhausen your post made me laugh I do love her chubby legs! She was the most scrumptious baby 💕 I think she will be like yours and slim down but always be muscular- never a skinny Minnie. She is lovely and has beautiful hair for those who have commented! Completely different to mine sadly!

I saw this thread yesterday, then at a hospital appt DS, who's just 3, was weighed and measured. He's on 91st centile for weight and 75th centile for height according to the charts in his red book. I'm not at all worried, if he was ONE CENTIMETRE TALLER he'd be on the 91st for both. DS has steadily climbed the centiles since he was born on the 25th for both H&W.

OP, she looks a bit chubby but not horribly so. Sweet little girl. She will probably grow out of it. My girl is a 15 centile and up from centile 1. So I was worrying about the opposite case. One never quite stops worrying...

She looks very like my friends DN size wise at the same age. My friends DN is getting bigger and bigger as the years have gone on so none of this levelling off as off yet. My friend has has 4 DDs of her own and childminds her DN quite a bit. Her DSis provides the food and my friend often comments about the amount of snacks and portion sizes being off compared to what she would have fed her own 4 but her DSis just can’t see it. Just something that might be relevant for you.

I think we were all raised with a certain post war notion that kids might starve and a notion to get more food into them that they actually need so it can be really hard to see what correct kids portion sizes look like.

Thank you @Lazydaisies I think you are right in that portion size may be the concern. Food is healthy but too much of anything is bad I suppose!

Thought I’d update as has 2 year review today! HV were v pleased with speech etc and all milestones. Discussed weight and height (measured and BMI 19 so v overweight). They looked at the food diary (thanks for suggesting!) and her curve (always >91st centile) and her food and activity. They agreed as she is also tall and has a v healthy diet and is v active that they weren’t concerned (sometimes if high BMI they refer to the weight management team) but as we are so aware a monitoring they didn’t think this was necessary. Advised cut down milk (no milk to drink- water only and semi skimmed in cooking eg porridge) be v careful with portion sizes and offer fruit after if has had enough pasta/potato/main. Otherwise continue as we are. They said her hair, nails and skin were shining and they could see how healthy her diet must be and said themselves she didn’t look at heavy as she is! Going to follow advice and go back for review in 3/12. Feel so much better and just wanted to say thanks for all your such helpful advice and for anyone going through similar the food diary really helped but at the end of the day all kids grow differently they said!