Double your height at two

[LittleMilla]

Can someone tell me if this tends to work.

DS who was two on Sunday is only 82cm and I'm feeling that he's got a lifetime of being the shortest ahead of him.

He's an absolute hero is every way and I KNOW it doesn't matter. I just feel sad as smaller guys do get a slightly harder time. My dad is a short arse and managed to excel at sports so was ok.

Can anyone regale me with tales of it either working out or not for their children?

Meant to add, my dad's two brothers are 6 footers and my DH comes from a pretty average height family.

I am a mere 5ft 1 however!

It's a well used rule of thumb, but remember that even the shortest sixth former can have a big growth spurt!

Just checked the little red book (as my DS2 is quite short) and it says something along the lines of 'height at age two doubled is the height of 95% of people, allowing for 6cm variation each way' so not very accurate at all!
According to DS's height now, he will be 5'10 but add another 6cm and he's 6ft ish!

this was on More or Less on Radio 4 recently. It's not true :)

apparently something like 95% of 2yo (I can't remember) are within 5cm of each other, whereas adults are far more distributed and not within 10cm.

Is this just turned 2 or just before they turn 3?!

That would make DS 6'8'' which is a little bit worrying!!!

Dd1 was 90cm at 2 (I remember because we went to Legoland and she was just tall enough to go on the rides) and as I'm 160cm and dh is on the shorter side of average I really don't think she'll be 180cm tall!

But what I found quite weird was when I had a 20-week scan with DD1. I'm not in the UK so was following a slightly different scanning programme, and the 20-week scan was a high definition anomaly one which also measured the size of just about every bone. The gynaecologist looked at all the measurements in relationship to each other and commented that DD1 would reach up to 1 metre 80, which is quite tall for a girl (about 5 ft 8 or 9, I think). She's now 14 and already at 1 metre 75, so he might well be right. It's interesting because neither DH nor myself are particularly tall, so he wouldn't have been guessing from our heights. It was such a weird feeling being told the final height of a baby that hadn't even been born at the time.

I was just over 3ft age 2.

This would mean I should be 6ft now...

But I'm only 5ft 7. Things level out

Although I was tall at 2, lots of people caught me up by the time I got to school!

Good point creatureretorts - my DS was 85cm at his 2 year check and is now 2 and 3 months and 86cm when I last measured him so goodness only knows how much he'll grow before three.

I'm with you OP. My 19 month old DS is only on the 9th centile for height which will make him a 5'6" adult at best. DH was a small child but had a big growth spurt around 16 and is now 5'10" so I'm hoping DS takes after him and not me (5'3"). That said, DS is extremely handsome so it won't matter what height he is

As a child I had tests for gigantism as I was off all charts at GOS for height and weight for a 3 year old.

I am 5ft9.

I was 5ft by aged 8 though, children literally grow at different rates.

The lines go all the way until they're four. So you can see where they're tracking.

From six months ago DS appears to have slipped from just above 9th percentile down to just above 2nd . Thing is, their growth spurts are just so unpredictable!

Strawberry - my DS is also extremely handsome along with charming and funny so I'm not too concerned! He literally has all of the nursery staff falling over themselves to be with him, so hoping his magnetic personality will make up for any height shortcomings!