Children’s height

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Hello everyone,

I just wanted to know if people had any similar experiences…..

I have a daughter, 12 and a son, 7. I’m a little worried about their height. Daughter is approx. 4f10 at son is 110cm.

I'm 4f9 and husband is 5f11. Im worries that my children are going to be small like me, no where near average height. I’ve struggled with being small all my life and hoped this wouldn’t be the case for my children. Is there anything that can be down to help my children grow a little taller? Daughter doesn’t seem to have hit puberty yet, hopefully that’s a good thing.

Anyone had any similar experiences? What did you do? Many thanks 😊

So far my son is only 5’2 at 13, I’m not worried at the moment because he’ll definitely start to have growth spurts as he gets a bit older. I wouldn’t try to worry just yet OP, both your son and daughter have a lot of time to go through growth spurts. Even if they’re still short by the time they’ve fully developed, that’s ok, height isn’t something that can be changed since it’s all genetics

Thank you for replying.

One of my boys was 5 ft at 14 and now 6 ft at 16! All my girls are 5'4 or over (I'm 5'2) dad is 511

I have no advice by my aunty is 4ft 10 and my uncle 5ft 2. Granted their children are small for their ages and compared to their peers but the oldest is 18 and he is around 5ft4 maybe 5ft 3 (he's slightly smaller than me) and the 16!year old is around 4ft 11. I don't think there will be much more growth in them but the boy has by passed both parents. My DD9 is 4ft 8 I think but her dad is 6ft. She has long legs but I don't think she will grow much more than my height. X

As long as they have a nutritional diet there's not much else you can do other than work on their resilience and self esteem should they be smaller.
There are bonuses ofcourse, cost of clothes being the main one.

We have the opposite scenario where DD is exceptionally tall and even finding trousers that fit is difficult she was about 5ft9 at 12 years, she found the attention difficult until she started rugby which is a sport great for all shapes and sizes.

nutritionally balanced diet my keyboards doing what it likes today

Thanks everyone, I really try to get them to have a healthy and balanced diet. They are pretty good with eating them too 😀

Feed them a balanced diet and try not to worry. Height isn't something in our control

Please don't make them aware of your issue with this.. you will give them a complex all on your own if you start making it a bigger deal than it is

Thanks for the replies everyone

If childrens are smaller than would be predicted by genetics they can be investigated for growth hormone deficiency. But if you are under 5 foot then it's likely they are genetically small, which is normal. Which percentile are they on? If their predicted adult height falls somewhere between you and their father then it's all good.

Two DSs, I had a bigger one and a smaller one! My eldest was short throughout primary and well into secondary, then suddenly had a growth spurt around 15, slow growth since then and has ended up at 5'10. His younger brother was always taller, people often assumed they were twins. He was tall in year 7, grew quickly and was 6 feet by age 15. He's 6'2 now and still growing!

I am only slightly taller 4:10 and my Dh is 6ft. My DS age 16 is 5ft 9 and my DS age 12 is 5ft 2.
Plenty of time for them to grow more.

Thanks for sharing everyone.

diet and high impact exercise is the only thing you can encourage.

the rest is up to genes.

Have you looked up their percentile for height and expected height as an adult? It gives you a rough idea what height they might end up being.

Theres a really small bar chart on the right on one of the height pages in the red book.

I'm 5 foot 3 and ex is 5 foot 6. Ds is 5.5 and is 110cm so just under 25th centile. He's estimated to be 5 foot 8 which I think fits as in my experience, if there's not a huge height difference between mum and dad, boys tend to be a bit bigger than their dad.

I will dig out their red books and have a look. Thanks

DS9 is 5'0" already.

Statistically speaking, societies where milk consumption is high have higher average heights, and there are cases where an increase in milk consumption has been directly correlated with an increase in average height.

You can't change their genetics, but most of us are shorter than our genetics would allow. As per a PP, a healthy lifestyle with high dairy consumption is likely to result in them becoming as tall as they are genetically likely to.