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Has anyone's 3 year old jumped up a centile on the growth chart?

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Frostythesurfmum · 13/12/2006 19:24

DD had her 3.5 year check today. She hadn't been weighed for 18 months and has jumped from the 50th centile to the 91st. They're going to weigh her again in 6 months' time and said they weren't overly concerned .......... but I am now! She isn't what you'd call a fat child, or even chubby, the word I'd probably use is solid. She eats well and doesn't have loads of sugary stuff, she can take or leave sweets and never has fizzy drinks or crisps.

Is it anything to worry about?

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ParanoidSurreyHousewife · 13/12/2006 19:32

What centile is her height? Certainly wouldn't worry if they were broadly in line.

blueshoes · 13/12/2006 19:34

frosty, how about her height? If it is 91st or close, I wouldn't be too worried.

Frostythesurfmum · 13/12/2006 19:40

Hmm didn't think of that, but have just checked and she's 50th for height.

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blueshoes · 13/12/2006 19:49

I guess your dd might just have a bigger frame? If she is active and eats well, I can't see a problem

tassis · 13/12/2006 19:52

I wouldn't worry about it if she eats healthily and is reasonable active.

FWIW it hasn't ocurred to me to plot my 3.5's weight on a centile chart (or to get him weighed) for about 2 years. Now I'm worrying that I should have...

Mojomummy · 13/12/2006 19:58

How much does she weigh & how tall is she ?

(my DD is 3.5 & 33 lbs, about 100cm)

Frostythesurfmum · 13/12/2006 20:06

She's 18.10kg (they didn't put it in lbs, which I understand!) and 99.5 cm high.

She is pretty active. She gets worn out by going to pre-school and on the other days we go swimming or the playgroup where there's lots of running around.

She is possibly much more active in teh summer as we're at the beach so much and she's swimming/running around.

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Frostythesurfmum · 13/12/2006 20:08

I just googled it and it's 39.9 lb.

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Mojomummy · 13/12/2006 20:42

well, I would say she is fine. As long as she isn't eating sweets/choc/cakes etc every day & is active & enjoys being active, she might just be a chunkier build ?

(a friends DD is chunky but is always scoffing brownies/sugary yogurts/cakes etc)

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Mojomummy · 13/12/2006 20:51

Thinking about it, if my Dd was 6lbs heavier, she'd be chubby.

What sort of build are you & DH/DP ?

When you say she doesn't have loads of sugary stuff, what sort of food does she eat ?

are you still giving her full fat milk ? oooh, all these questions !

SNOWBall4girlz · 13/12/2006 21:25

I have not had my 3 yr old weighed for over a year now and am worried that I should check
she is solid not chunky measures about 105 cm and wears 5-6 yr old clothes.
She fits her frame iykwim.

Frostythesurfmum · 13/12/2006 22:22

She does have full fat milk on her breakfast and occasionally for a drink. She'll eat 1 or 2 weetabix for breakfast, sometimes toast too and a fruit juice. Lunch is normally a sandwich and yoghurt - she eats very little then. Tea is something like chicken, mashed potato, sweetcorn and peas. Pud is fruit of some sort, maybe tinned. Occasionally rice pudding or ice cream. Sometimes she is ravenous and sometimes hardly eats anything. She doesn't eat chips, it's always mash or jacket, and rarely eats crisps.

If we go out somewhere she'll always choose soup and bread (she even asked for it in Macdonalds and was cross that she couldn't have it!), she'd never choose anything off the children's menu. In fact she'd have soup all week if I let her. It's great because I liquidise all sorts of veg and call it soup and she'll eat it. The Macdonalds was probably the 2nd one this year.

She doesn't really snack between meals. Occasionally she'll have a biscuit or something like a piece of malt loaf. She has squash and I give her the sugared variety as I don't want her having the one with sweeteners in. She isn't a great drinker, so she isn't having gallons of sugary squash.

I'd say she's fairly active. We swim most weeks, she goes to the park, runs around at pre-school and playgroup.

I might phone back the HV and talk to her more about it. She really didn't seem that worried, and I trust her. I might also write a food/drink diary just to see if there is extra sugary/fatty things creeping in that I don't realise. It's funny, my step-d (who doesn't live with us) is at the other end of the scale and we worry about how little she eats and how thin she is.

I've talked to dh too tonight and he just says "she isn't fat, don't worry". So maybe I'm fretting over nothing. Neither of us are particularly big, dh is bigger than he should be but not fat. I'm a size 12 with enormous norks!

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Mojomummy · 14/12/2006 13:39

sounds similar to what my DD eats - cereal with semi skimmed milk though or rice milk. Very diluted juice. Usually half a sandwich (cheese or houmous + cucumber) very dilted juice. Proper tea...lentils/veg/rice fish fingers potatoes veg, those sorts of things. Offered a yogurt, & we;ve been eating pineapple lately due to offers on them. Semi skimmed milk before bed - 125ml. She'll have the odd banana/pear/apple as a snack, but generally she doesn't snack. My Dd is sturdy - in H&M tops age 3-4, next skirts 2-3 & has long legs so Tesco jogging bottoms in age 3-4. Almost size 9 f in shoes.

A food diary is a good idea - but please don't make your DD aware of it - I remember my dad saying I was as fat as butter...terrible to be aware of weight/body conscious from a young age.

USAUKMum · 14/12/2006 14:02

Could be that she is just about to do a height growth spurt. Not my DD, but her BF goes out then up. So if you'd catch her at the "wrong" time for the weighing she'd be 50centile height & much larger in weight. But then she spurts about 4cm and it is all in proportion again.

Frostythesurfmum · 15/12/2006 20:07

That's something dh said, that she's probably been caught just before a growth spurt. I was comparing her to the others at her nativity today and there were lots who were bigger than her. Hand on heart I don't look at her and think she's overweight. So I think I shall stop worrying.

Thanks for all your comments .

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