has any one else got a DD as huge as mine and did they ever stop growing or is she destined to be 6ft 7"?

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my dd1 has just turned 3 and is 108cm and well over 3 stone. she has been off the top of all those graphs (not 99.6th centile or anything daft like that.........way off the top!) since 6 months and i was wondering if she will ever slow down?!!!

everyone used to say............she will slow down soon and everyone else will catch up........but it hasnt happened yet!!

dd2 is now 20 wks old and weighs 19lb 7oz which is heading for the 99.6th centile!!! she is currently bigger than dd1 was at 20 wks which is a bit of a worry.

dd1 is perfectly in proportion now and im not really that concerned, just interested to see if she will ever slow down!!

Well im 6'1 and remember being taller than my recpetion class teacher. (admitedly she was very short indeed, but even so)

Are you and your Dp tall?

i guess i am tallish at 5ft 10" but dh is only 5ft 11", so not very tall for a man

do you like being so tall?

sometimes.
usually not.

BUT everyone has some aspect of their appearance they dislike.
being tall is not the worst thing in teh world

I have the same situation my dd1(6 and wears 7-8) has always been tall but dd2(2 in jan)is enormous and i am really concerned because i loathe being tall(6ft2) it has held me back all my life and people have always made rude comments about it which is probably why i feel that way.The added problem is that now i get the added comments on a daily basis sometimes day after day by the same people about dd2

I am going to discuss it with hv next time.

I have a DS in the same position but understand that is quite different. However I am tall - 6ft. Always tall right from the start. Always taller than friends and continued to be the same amount taller than them all through school/life. My sister (older) was also tall as a toddler and child. However at senior school her friends started growing faster and by the end of senior school she was bang in the middle, average. So I'm not sure it necessarily follows that she will remain so much taller.

I was really tall as a child and slowed down at about 12-13 (just when everyone else started to grow). I am 6' 1" though, taller than both parents (I was about 5' 11" at 14).

I like it, most of the time; although I've gained quite a thick skin over the years. DD and DS are both off the scale but I doubt it will bother me too much. (I spent a couple of years being measured rather too often for my liking.)

My 4 year old is over 4 feet tall, but she weighs only 2.7 stone.

She had some femur calibration test done on her at Royal Infirmary for Sick Children in Edinburgh, not because of her growth but because of some motor skill delays unrelated to her height (her father's side is very tall), and will grow to at least 5ft., 10in. according to that.

My niece is 13 and 6ft., but she seems to be slowing now she's hit puberty and will probably only see 6ft., 1in. or 2in. It's not bothered her much at all but then she is in a very large US city with many tall people.

Dd1 was like this. Neither me nor her dad are particularly tall, and she was just HUUUUUUGE pretty much from day 1. She was a long newborn, and by the time she was 2 she was wearing age 5 - 6 clothes. She was always the tallest in the class, and by the time she was 6 she was the tallest in the school. We gave up going to Brownies because she grew out of the biggest uniform and the school were really understanding about our slackness re: uniform in the last few months at primary.

She is 14 now and has started to slow down. She is a bit on the tall side but there are people in her year who are the same size and taller. For the first time ever, last summer, she wore clothes from the previous year.

I don't know why she was a tall child, but she was. I don't think she will be a tall adult though.

Some problems we had: people expected her to be so much more advanced than she should be for her age, because she looked so much older. Twas impossible to get a trike to fit her, so we bought a teenager's bike with stabilisers (she was 5) Once a woman in a shoe shop reported me to her supervisor because she thought I had kidnapped a random child and had no idea of how old she was - I was saying she was 2, when she was quite clearly waaaaaaay older than that.

It sounds like you have two lovely, healthy daughters, well done!

DD is like this. Born over 4kgs and 55cm, now 2.5 and wears 4 yr clothes.

I was like her, too. In all my childhood photos, especially elementary school, most other kids came to my shoulders.

Then I had my first period aged 12 and stopped growing. Others caught up. I am 168 cms.

In other words, don't worry

Hi my dd1 is 6 and wearing 8-9 clothes. She is in yr 1 but in her class they have years r,1&2 together and she is by far the tallest. Her bio father was 6'3 but im only 4'11 so i never expected her to be this big, i think she will slow down soon as her feet aren't that big (13)
My other dd's are tiny, dd2 will be 3 at the end of the months and is only noe fitting into 18-24 clothes and weighs 28 lbs, and dd3 is 5months and weighs 15lbs.

your dc sound like my dd. When she was born my first thought was look at the length of those legs. Compared to other new -borns she looked like a 1 month old. She's always been on the 98th percentile and people have always told me she's huge at which point I say she's not huge she's tall. By the time she was 3 when people commented she had a spiel that said yes i am tall I have a very tall daddy.

She's now 6, looks eight and towers above the rest of her class. I am resigned to be the smallest in the house by the time she's 12.
My dp has lots of tall sisters and nieces so she's got lots of tall women around her which I think is good.
The only thing I'm worried about is what happens when she has to move into clothes that are not age appropriate but are the only things that fit her.

I'm also tall (6'1") and have been this height since I was about 13... I hated school because of it BUT it has given me so many advantages since. I used to get loads of comments when I lived in the UK (ooh you're tall - ooh you're rude/observant...) but to be honest looking back people only feel able to comment about tall people (rather than about obese people) because they're secretly jealous in one way or another. That's my reasoning anyway

If it helps: by the time your dd's are 40, everyone will be a lot taller than they are now. They will be GLAD to be so tall / average height!

Yes, my DD1 (9) has always been really tall too. When she was two I had people asking me why she wasn't at school! From approx 6 months old she was right off the percentile and has always (and still does) wear clothes two or three years older than her actual age. It's ok so far as she seems to enjoy being the tallest in her school year, but I don't know if that will change once she becomes a teenager. I'm about average height (5 ft 6") but I seem to remember being this height when I was about 11 years old, so maybe some girls are quick developers and others will catch up later on? I've never worried about DD1's height too much - I think the important thing is to try to make them stand tall and proud, and they still look beautiful . DD1 has other issues (over-sensitivity) which I'm far more worried about at the moment! DD2 (4) is average height and weight.

Oh, the annoying thing is when buying clothes or shoes/boots you can't get the pretty girly stuff as your child takes an adult size, so they have to put up with boring plain shoes! Have so far managed to avoid teenage clothes (far too suggestive for a 9-year old!)

I'm 5'10/5'11 and hated being tall when I was younger, BUT now I'm in my 40's and I can see the benefits. You carry your weight well...the shops cater much better now for taller women and the range of clothes is quite wide, even at the supermarkets....shoes go up to size 9 in most stores, so the accompanying big feet are fine too. Try not to worry too much (easier said than done, I know) but it'll all work out for the best!

Yes, I second that from CarofromWton - don't let your DD's feel they have to hide their height. Make them (literally) walk tall, NO slouching!! My sister's also quite tall and our mother used to nag us incessantly not to slouch and I'm so glad she did. Tall people who stoop a bit to hide it actually only draw attention to the fact that they're tall

Buying clothes and shoes is, I agree, annoying and frustrating but I think things in the future can only get better on that front...

I was a very tall child, always a head above everyone else. I am now 5'11 (my dad was 6 foot, mum 5'6). I love being tall, have never had a problem with it. My best friend is also a 6 foot female and loves it. Don't worry. If she is going to be a tall girl, celebrate her height. It's great being tall :-)

She might stop growing quite young. I was really tall as a child, but stopped growing at 14, when I was 5'11" (and had slowed down for a couple of years before actually stopping), so I'm only quite tall as an adult.

I rather like it though, and have never experienced any rudeness. And my DC are also much taller than their peers. We do get lots of comments about it, but only "gosh they're tall" - not anything offensive.

I'm another 5'10"-11" (depends on the day it seems!) that did all their growing pre-puberty, and my dd looks like she's going to be taller, she's 7 1/2 and in 9-10 clothes. My dh is 6'5" so it's probably not too surprising, but we are both the tallest in our families, so the children might not have inherited that gene (ds is tall too). She loves being tall now and has a tendancy to make friends with very small girls, which really accentuates it (she loves to mother...) Luckily she is quite a mature little girl so holds the height quite well at the moment, but I do worry about her teenage years - I didn't enjoy secondary much, became a total tomboy and not at all confident in my looks, but also dd is pretty (which is great) so I worry that she may be taken advantage of too.

However I love being tall now - in fact I don't really think about it much, just every now and then realise that everyone I work with are so small! Having a tall husband helps!

I'm tall and dd2 is already 105 at 3 and always gets comments. But I'm not sure what the point of worrying about it is. I mean, I'm not going to ask for drugs to slow her down, or feed her less! What will be will be, and we'll just try our best to give her a positive attitude to her height/build whatever it turns out to be.

'Giantism' is a different kettle of worms, but I'm guessing you're not worried that that's what it is.

i just hate all the comments that dd gets from people..........everyone seems to say she is "huge" or a "big girl" and i remember getting those same comments myself and i have always been paranoid about my weight so i dont want her to be.

guess theres not a lot i can do really and i do find myself saying similar things about dd2 now who is nearly 5 months. people look at her, ask how old she is and i say "yes.......i know shes huge!!!" so i am probably not helping really.!!

dd2 is also very tall for her age. was off the charts for years and has now settled back on the 99.8th line. she is in reception, and towers above everyone in her class. she weighed 3stone at 3years old, but has hardly gained any weight since then and is now about 3st 8lb (she was messing about on the scales). she wears clothes for 8year olds, and hats for teenagers.

i was talkl as a child, but stopped growing at 14, when i was 5ft 3. so am not excessivly tall at all. dh is just over 6ft tal lthough.

Yep can identify with this! I'm 5"9 & dh is 6"6 - all 3 dd's are off the centile curves. Like u i hate all the comments they get. When dd2 was only 3 I used to get comments from people saying 'why isn't she in school'!!

my dd was born just over 4kg a month early and altho she gained weight slowly till weaning (at 6m) she has grown and grown and grown since!

she's 2.4 and 97cm (3' 2") and 18kg (40lb) now and towers over her toddler mates. she's in 3-4yr clothes and a size 9 shoe.

I'm 5'7" and her father is 6'4", I did the calculation in her red book and it seems she's on target for 6' and is average for a 4yr old and off the %centile for her age.

her appetite is huge too and i do worry about how much she packs away but she's a healthy happy energetic gorgeous girl.

other things i worry about are that other people expect her to behave like a 4yr old, that other people constantly go on about how big she is, that she will feel self-conscious in her teens etc if she is taller than all her mates etc.

i like the "yes I am tall, I have a tall daddy" line, i'll encourage her to use that one as she grows.

her father pointed out that she has the personality to rise above ('scuse the pun!) any negative comments she gets and i tend to agree.

i just want her to grow up happy.

My ds was 3 in October, is also over 3 stone and approx a metre tall.

Myself adn DP were both tallest kids in our class until we hit about 13 and then stopped growing! I am guessing our ds will be the same. It is funny tho s his little cousin is 12 weeks older and it looks like there is about a year's difference between them!