Height below the 3rd centile

[rmensah]

Hello I really need advice and how I can get my child to see a pediatrician. So I had a full term pregnancy 39weeks, and my baby weighed 1.9kg, length 42cm and HC:31cm all way below the average when you plot in graph. I had pre eclampsia and oligohydraminous. May baby literally stopped growing because on my 31weeks scan she weighed 1.7kg. My abbay was IUGR and SGA (small for gestational age) baby.
my worry is she is 2yrs and weighs 10.4kg height is 9nly 77cm which is below the 3rd centile. My height is 160cm and father is 162cm (my MIL also suffered similar situation with her pregnancy with my partner). Both grandparents are tall and my sibling in laws are all tall I know both myself and partner are not really tall but being below the 3rd centipe is quite dangerous and I’m really worried. What flipped me out is last week she celebrated her bday and everybody was suprised thought she was 9-12months.. hmm

How is your daughter in herself? Is she full of energy, interested in the world around her, and generally meeting her milestones?

In and of itself, being below the 3rd centile is not dangerous. If you took 100 healthy little girls her age, 2 of them would be below the 3rd centile – usually, it's just part of the normal range of sizes of children.

Are the height and weight you gave measured at home? 10.4 kg at 2 years is around the 25th centile for weight, so very much in the normal range. 77 cm at 2 years is nearer the 0.4 centile, though, and I think children around or under the 0.4 centile, they do like to check. That said, small children are not easy to measure for height, so I think the first thing I'd do is get an official height from a HV (or weighing drop-in, if your area has them) or GP, get them to plot it in her red book, and then ask about a referral if she plots very low.