Centiles reflect adult height?

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Do these cenitiles actually reflect adult height? I have 3 DSs, one 2nd, one 91st & one 50th? Are they all going to be such a different height at adulthood? It seems a bit weird as siblings I know are normally a similar height.

It's possible to make a height projection based on doubling their height at 2. It's often inaccurate though. BIL was supposed to be short and is now over 6 foot. DP 'should' have been very tall and is just under 6 foot...

Only time will tell

I hope not.

My baby was IUGR due to undiagnosed pre-eclampsia. He's six weeks old and following the o.4th centile curve

I'm praying he's going to catch up to an average size

I don't think they do. Both DH & I were taller than average until puberty hit (on the early side of average) and then we both stopped growing at average adult height (I'm 5'5", he was 5'9"), while many of our shorter friends carried on growing for several more years and ended up much taller.

Both my DCs are 98th percentile + for height and always have been, and currently tower over many of their classmates. The 'calculate your child's height' things say they are going to be giants - but my guess is that they will also stop growing at an earlier age and while they may end up a little taller than me/DH, they are not going to be unusually tall. I would guess looking at the range of heights in your families and the kind of growth patterns people have had would give you a better idea.

Driven I hope not! If it is true, DD1 will be almost 2 m (more than 6 feet 3 ), and dd2 is following an even bigger curve!
Well the nerdy scientist than I am thinks that the curves are not really true. It is a mean of a lot of children put together so it flattens out differences. have you notice there is no "bump" for puberty on them because all the kids hit it at different ages.
On the whole, a tall kid will probably be tall (can be smaller than predicted for some environmental reason, diseases, malnutrition....). A short kid will probably stay short.
It does depends of you and you DH family trends though. If your DH was short and suddenly grew a lot at puberty, probably your smaller kid will be like him and they will all end up at a similar height. Unless you have a very short granpa... he could be like him too.
It is all a mixture of genes (differents siblings do have different sets so can end up quite different too) and environment, very difficult to predict (probably impossible).

In our red book (child development log thingy don't know if they're red everywhere) there is a calculation you can do to see what the childrens eventual height might be. Off teh to of my head I think it just uses the heights of the parents.

DD was always between 25th and 50 th centile until she reached puberty and now at 12 she is 5'5 and around 75th, she is already 3 inches taller than me and I suspect has another years growth.

DS started off under 50th but ended up on 90s and now at 14 he is about 6ft, not sure with boys when they stop growing but DH is 6'2 so he may end up as tall has him, difinitely hasn't inherited my families short genes.

you can get siblings different heights, i have one tall brother and one shortish..
i presumed that if they are taller than average as toddlers, likely to be tallish as adults? but you never know it probably varies...
both mine are very tall babies/toddlers so expecting them to be quite tall, me and dh both are short though. just have to wait and see i think