DD weight/belly reassurance or kick me up the bum

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DD is 4.4yo, she is 110cm tall and weighs 3 stone 4lbs (21kg I think). I'm worried that I am being one of those parents who can't see if their child is overweight or not and I don't know if it is true or if I am being neurotic.

She also has a big belly. It seems to increase over the day, but I thought she would be grown out of this by now?

She does like her food, but we try out best to go the everything in moderation route and she does 1 hour of martial arts and 1 hour of swimming every week, we try to walk whenever we can to places, I take her to the park or woods a couple of times a week and at nursery they have a huge garden with climbing things all over that I am know by the state of her that she hurls herself around that.

We go to a group with school age children and she roughly looks the same size as the girls who have just started Yr1.

I have been scared to post this, but honestly, should I be worried?

Anyone?

What size clothes does she wear?

speak to your health visitor if you are concerned

She wears 5-6 for the length. I would speak to health visitor, but they are rubbish here. She had toddler diarrohea and I gave up trying to get advice on that and potty training.

My twins are 5 and tall. One weighs 3 stone 8lb and the other 3 stone 4lb. They are not overweight at all and have flat stomachs.

If you are worried take her to your GP to get her weighed and measured.

There is an on-line BMI calculator for children on wwww.keepkidshealthy.com. Put her age and measurements in and it will give you some idea.

If the length of the 5-6 clothes is right then she may well be in proportion. I saw a 3 year old at a party who towered over my 4 year old, and she is in age 5 clothes - but she was perfectly in proportion and slim - just head and shoulders over the other children! I second taking her to the GP if you have concerns

Thank you for the further replies, that calculator says that she is overweight because she is 95th centile, so I guess I am doing something wrong here. Will book in with GP.

I think it is more about what she eats than what exercise she does

A quick tot up of calories would quickly see whether she is over eating

I think that you are right LadyBlaBlah because I can't really see that she could do anymore exercise, but now I'm thinking that I have just been blind and giving her too much to eat. I don't know what to do differently. Well I do, obviously, I need to not give her so much food, I don't know what to change.

Sorry I'm babbling.

it must depend what calculator you use as the nhs one says she is a healthy weight and is on the 73rd centile.

nhs bmi calculator

I also used your figures in the bmi calculator given earlier and got her as 92nd percentile and 'at risk' of becoming overweight - BMI cant mean much if different sites have different calculations.

Thank you Seona, that is quite confusing. I think I just need to check with GP and get a definitive answer.