Dd age 10 128 cm, dropping centiles

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I posted about this Feb

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/childrens_health/5000464-dd-age-9-48-inches-heigh-not-grown-in-over-two-years

Been back to the gp today as dd turns 10 in a few weeks.

She was 126cm in Feb. Gp told dh she would be 5ft as a adult. She was 9 and 6 months then.

She is 9 and 11 months now and 128cm.

She is 128cm ( girls 7-8 clothes are 121-128 cm) she is not growing. Well clearly she is, but she is dropping centiles. She was 25th centile as a toddler and young child.

The gp was looking at me as if I was mad. Said to come back if she still isn't growing at 13. Surely if she was 25th centile at 3-5 but is now under the tenth this is a concern? She has possibly grown 4cm in 2 years but definitely only 2cm in 6 months.

When I do I worry?

No need to worry yet, kids can just stop growing for a while and then grow in spurts. It's only four months and she has actually grown a bit in that time.

How long do you think I need to leave it before asking them to measure her again? 6 months or a year?

I'm asking the gp to measure in case ( as I'm in presently) lack of growth is blamed on my measuring skills at home

You only need to worry if she drops below two curvedlines on the nhs chart or completely off usually and even then it could just be where she needs to be

Kindly; I think you need to chill out a little. Google
Average height for a girl age 9= 121-145cm
Age 10 range- 125-150cm
My daughter is 11 and still under 130cm. She's just very petite, nothing to worry about.

My child was 128cm when she turned 10 years old.

Your child seems fine

If she drops two curve lines she would fall off the chart. So do I just worry if she goes off the bottom of the chart? I'm more worried that she has had a extended period, two years of negligible growth pre Feb. I can see she has started to grow very slowly now

I've looked at your old thread and what strikes me is your husband is pretty short for a man. Presumably he was always a short child? It's possible she just takes after him? As she has grown 2cm in 6 months and hasn't totally stoped growing I would try not to worry. I think 128cm is about average for an 8 year old? So less than two years off what she is, which I don't think is massively worrying. As long as she continues to be active and healthy I wouldn't worry just yet and would wait and see, like the GP suggests.

It's worrying because she isn't changing shoes or clothes. The gp told her to stretch as much as possible today. She's been in 7-8 clothes since she turned 8 now. Hopefully she starts to shoot up soon. Yes dh is short by we have a 16 ds who is 5,8 and a 20 year old 5,7 ds, so although the kids are short for men, they, like him are well over the 25th centile, as was she until the last few years. Her other brother is very tall for his age at 12

My boy did that, dropped from the 25th to the 9th in the space of a year at age ten. He's now 12 and happily tracking along in the 9th. Your child's chart looks similar and they're growing in line with their current percentile. I really wouldn't worry, instead I'd worry more about projecting this onto your child and making them self conscious about their height.

I think you're worrying about nothing. She's quite a bit taller than mine who is 9 years 8 months so it doesn't sound out of the ordinary to me. Well within averages and still growing. Your husband and sons are relatively short. I expect its a genetic thing.

I've looked back at your previous thread, and from her chart, it looks like from about 6.5 to 8, she was following the 9th centile. Her last two measurements are about midway between the 2nd and 9th, so only a slight drop and not unusually small (in a group of 100 girls her age, you'd expect 4 or 5 to be smaller).

I'd measure again in about 6 months and see if she's still tracking between the 2nd and 9th centiles.