Should I be worried re 18mo dd's weight

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Dd was born at 91st percentile though she was poorly and went down to 25th pecentile at her lightest at a few weeks old. Then she steadily gained weight making 50rh precentile at six weeks, 75th percentile at six months and back to 91st percentile at 14 months.

She's now nearly 19 months and is 98th precentile. Does this means she's overweight? And given she eats healthily and runs around a lot, is there anything I need to do about this? She's quite tall for her age I think - she's not been measured but she's on the higher end height wise of the kids her age that we know.

Have you checked her height in the red book? That will tell you what centile she is for that. As far as I know there is only reason to be concerned if she was a very low centile for height and high one for weight, or vice versa. Provided her height and weight are at similar centiles there is no problem.

If you are concerned then mention it to your HV, but I think she sounds fine

Hmm. It's a hard one.

Because if you overfeed your dc they may just grow early. They don't grow taller in the end (not like a malnourished child will end up smaller) but grow early. Parent says "they're not fat, just tall" but then reach a point where they stop growing and can quite suddenly put on a lot of weight.

I think if you/your dh/family is very tall then she may be just tall. If you're all average or smaller it may be something to watch.

I have the same worries. Dd is 19months and weighs 2 stone. She's quite tall (79 cm , just measured her with a ruler as she legged it past me), as am I at 5 foot 9- but I have always struggled with my weight and am worried my dd will be the same. She has no sweets, cakes, crisps or any other junk food really, so i am obviously doing something wrong.

Im probably not going to help at all here but Cagney I don't think 79cm is tall for a 19month old? Ive got a 19 month old who was actually 2 months premature and is only 79.5 cm and Dr's and HV's are worrying that he is very short for 19 months...he's just about on the 2nd Centile for his actual age but his weight is on the 50th so he looks quite stocky bless him.

Shit, really? People always comment on how tall she is. I'll measure her properly later. I think maybe she's not getting enough exercise but I've got a 3 month old too so i can't let her run around the park as i can't watch her and the baby at the same time. No playgroups locally either and i can't drive.

Thanks for replying, I will start thinking of how to tackle this

According to this chart 79cm is 25th percentile height at 19months.

I used to put DS3 in a sling and then was a lot easier to follow DS2 around the park with my hands free.

I don't know dd's height - only from comparing her to other kids, but will try to measure later.

I am overweight and suspect some of it is coming from generations of fat people as even a few generations back as refugees fleeing eastern Europe the women were large in my family. But I would love to break the cycle with dd.