22m daughter small for age

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Hi, I'm a bit concerned about my 22m old daughter. She only weighs about 22lb and has only just gone into 12-18m clothing fairly recently. She refuses to drink any milk, thankfully she likes cheese which I give her every day or yogurt. Her appetite isn't very good at the best of times. I have 3 other daughters and they all were about 22lb at about 10m! She is healthy and full of energy. Am I being a bit of a worry guts? Perhaps someone who has experience of a small child for their age could give me a few words of advice. Many thanks.

I have a 22m who is exactly the same. She weighs about 22/23lbs and people often think she is younger until she opens her mouth. She is none stop and dont think it is anything to worry about. It is strange as I have a dd who is only 12mths older so can notice the size difference even more but obviously dd2 is just petite where I have a ds who is 5 but quite tall for his age. Just shows they are all different.

Also meant to say dd2 eats none stop and drinks anything but is still small so that is obviously just her make up. I find it hard to get clothes to fit her especially as she is in knickers and smallest size I found was 18-24mths as they are baggy on her but guess it makes them easier to pull up and down..lol

I dont think my DD1 weighed any more than that at that sort or age, she was 20mths before she was heavy enough for a stage 2 car seat.

She is still teeny (shes 6) and is still in age 3/4 .

tbh if she is happily running around with plenty of energy i wouldnt worry.

that would put her just on the 9th centile - she is on the smaller side, but still in the "normal" range. Just because she isn't on the 50th centile, doesn't mean she isn't healthy. I wouldn't be concerned, she may sprout up when she is older, or she just may be on the smaller side.

SHe sounds like my daughter, who's still small.

She's ten now, the fastest girl in her class. And probably the brightest. But definitely the titchiest.

she might just be petite. dd aged 4 weighs 22 pounds.

Thanks all. By the way Nemowith3and1tobe Mothercare do 12-18 knickers for your daughter.

I was actually just about to start a thread about much the same thing. My ds is 2, and is between the 0.4th and 2 percentile in weight (height is between 9th and 25th!). The health visitor has sent us to the doctor to have him checked out. I'm sure he's ok, he has a good appetite is lively and bright and isn't even skinny, he has plenty of flesh on his little bones. I am small and my mum had the same experience with me, being sent to the doctor about me being underweight, also dh isn't big, so I'm assuming it's just a family trait. But I can't help but worry a bit. I have a niggling fear that it might be something to do with us not feeding him meat. We give him fish and are fairly careful about giving other sources of protein. I have read that vegetarian kids are slower to grow but do catch up. Dh and I don't eat meat mainly as we're not keen on the way animals are reared, growth hormones, antibiotics etc, not to mention the living conditions. We have considered giving him organic meat, but it's been such a long time since we've eaten meat that it's kind of totally fallen off our radar. Sorry if this seems like a bit of a highjack, but I was relieved to see the post and it didn't seem to make sense to start another similar thread.

At 2 dd was 9.5kg (about 21 lbs) and 80.5cm tall. Healthy, full of bounce and now at 7 is still one of the most petite in her year, over a head smaller than the taller ones! Most clothes are aged 5-6. Not weighed her recently but she only had a highback booster jsut over a year ago.

if a child is non-disabled, happy and energetic then the best place for those charts is the bin! Some kids have to be at the bottom and top of those charts!

Kelinemaus - my older 3 were raised vegan and are all strapping teenagers now. Tall and slender. I never worried about protein.

Agree re: binning the charts. How can kids all be the same? Madness!
My neice was like your lovely petite dds and is very curvy and normal now aged 30 with 2 kids of her own