Height centile falling

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My son is 18 months old. He was born on 25th centile for height and the 35th for weight.
At 1 his height dropped to 6th centile - his weight at 25th. I have just measured him now - 43rd for weight (ish he was wearing clothes and I was holding him) but his height has dropped again to the 1st centile.

Not normally a worrier but a hospital stay in January due to infection spread to heart I can't help think the worst now. (He's been discharged now as all fine after several follow ups)

Anyway- is this normal? I started looking into it because we seen a friend yesterday who's son has just turned 1. They were stood opposite sides of glass doors and he was a good few cm taller than my son. And her and her other son are quite small.

He's 18 months and 75cm tall.

I don’t know if it’s normal or not but I measured my son yesterday (he’s just over 1) and he’s dropped from 75th to 50th percentile. I assume they have different growth spurts. Perhaps just keep an eye on his height to see if he has little
moments of shouting up. No harm mentioned it to HV to see. Does the red book mention anything? Mine is downstairs, I’ll have a look later if yours isn’t to hand.

Shooting up^ not shouting

Birth centiles have got more to do with how good a placenta you had than anything else. Not much of a change between 12 months and now. What centiles are you and dad?

It can be genetics kicking in OP.

Things usually round off before the next big spurt. I'm glad he has recovered from his recent illness
That must have been awful for you.