Is 'over tall' a thing?

[paintedfences]

I have a baby boy who is 9 nearly 10 months old, and honestly he is ridiculously tall with a large head - he looks like an 18 month old! I get strangers commenting as well as my group of mum friends who all have babies the same age.

He's not remarkably chubby, but has a good 'cover' on him as the paediatric nurse said when I took him to be weighed a few months ago. He was 95th centile then, up from 75th a few months before which was up from 50th when he was just on milk.

I've got his 10 month review next week and am a bit nervous in case it's a problem as I've read some stuff on here about children being 'over tall' which is playing on my mind. I don't think I'm overfeeding him, he has breakfast lunch and dinner and no snacks, just milk.

Probably just being ridiculous after the 7th comment today, but hey ho.

In my BIL's family, the men are "taller side of average", like 5' 10" to 6'.

BIL is 6' 7".

Just randomly. And super skinny, think pro cyclist build.

I remember his mum once saying she worried as he was her first. But nope, he was just tall! He is now mid 30s and a perfectly well adjusted deputy head

Your boy might just be tall.

@violetswordfish unfortunately that might happen. My eldest was wearing age 2-3 by 12 months and people were forever talking to him and looking confused when he'd baby babble back.

People have eye rolled like he's a spoilt brat when he's on the floor mid tantrum because at 2.5 now he looks the same size as a 4 year old. It's really difficult to pick him up and carry him back to the car kicking and screaming because he's so heavy and strong!!

My friends little boy is a month older and he looks like a baby still and no one expects anything from him behaviour wise.

The best way to approach this is to measure your child regularly and plot it in the red book. If he is way off the chart or growth looks like it is not following the curve, to see your GP. They will refer you if necessary to Endocrinologist or Genetics. There are some conditions that cause this but they are unlikely if your child is on a normal growth curve, albeit at the top end.

My six year old was measured today and he’s plotting 91st centile for height and weight. I know he is tall. There’s tall genes on my side. I’m not concerned.

He's got reasonably tall genes on both sides. I think his height is to be expected.

I really wouldnt worry - DS spent from 9months - 2.5years old way off the top of the height percentiles chart (he wasn't even on the 75th for weight though! Looked like he'd been stretched and all trousers had to have the waist taken in so that he could have trousers that would stay up but were long enough). He slowed down a bit after that and at 7years old is one if the tallest DC in his year group but not the tallest. I do think he is likely to be 6'3-6'6 once fully grown which is inline with males on my side of the family but a little taller than his dad's side.

The biggest problem with his height is likely to be the judgements you get, from idiots people assuming your child is much older than they are. At 13months old I had some vile man telling my DS he shouldn't be in a pushchair and that mommy was bad for letting him be so lazy! I was pissed off and the dickhead bloke apologised once I pointed out that my son was only 13months and actually walked a fair amount of the time but I'd had to rush in for a prescription, so it was necessary to stick him in the pushchair rather than take twice as long walking at a 13month olds pace. There have been various other incidents over the years too where people just expect far too much from my DC for their age. DD gets it too, as she hovers in the 90's percentiles.

Don’t worry, and try to ignore other folk’s comments. Both my children were very big babies and off the top of the centile chart for height and head size too. Son continued to be tallest in his class for most of his schooling, and now he is an adult and is 6ft5”. Which is quite surprising as I’m 5ft4 and OH is 5ft9. I think he is a throw back to a previous generation.

The biggest problem we had was people assuming he was much older than his age. He has still never been ID’d for a drink!