In need of reassurance - is she really that small?

[heartinthecountry]

dd2 is 11 months old. She was referred to the hospital as she has dropped on her percentiles from the 50th at birth to now just below 9th. Her height did drop to just below 9th but is now back up to nearly 25th. She is 71cm high and weighs 7.9kg (17.7lb)

I'm not obsessed by the growth charts (she has only been weighed 5 times since birth) but I am beginning to worry a little as people have commented how small she is. And, at baby and toddler group this morning I did notice that she was smaller than nearly all the babies from about 6 months up! But, most of them are boys.

I really wasn't worried until I saw the doctor on Tuesday who I thought was going to say that as she seemed well she was probably just small but he just kept looking serious and has sent her for blood tests.

Sorry, this is really waffly - I suppose I really just want to know if she seems that tiny compared to most of her peers? Anyone else got a girl about the same age/size?

Thanks

[funnypeevesculiar]

dd is 15 months and still doesn't weigh 20lb - she hovers JUST on the percentile charts. So I see your small & raise you one! Asked the hv last time I had her weighed - she looked at me & said, I'm not worried - are you?
Both me & dh are small/slight, so I assume she is too.

I occassionally owrry that I should get someone to 'look into it' - but as she is otherwise fine/happy, I haven't bothered

[berolina]

ds at just short of a year : 70cm, 7.1kg. He is still small now (at 2.2), in both respects. But he is absolutely up to speed developmentally, healthy (has the odd cold he shrugs off, has had one very brief and mild sickness bug) and happy. Paediatrician has said that there is clearly nothing wrong. (dh and I are both small, dh unusually so, so part of it is possibly that). Sometimes one does get the feeling that small, slight babies/children are not quite (for want of a better word) acceptable somehow. The paediatrician also commented that he could have growth hormone if he ended up being bullied at school about his height [FFS emoticon] I'm actually rather proud of ds somehow for that reason - he shows people how healthy a small child can be.

[ExSpawniamusChorus]

DD (now 2.6) was similar. Started on 51st centile and gradually dropped to approx 5th centile by 12 or 13 months. In contrast to you I was the one stressing about it I dragged her off to the doc/HV about it several times, but they were never worried. They assured me that she was bright, alert and full of beans, so there wasn't a problem. She was (and is) a very very tiny eater. Oh, and she was always fairly 'tall' (over 50th centile), which I actually found even more worrying (God knows what her BMI was)!

She is still a real skinny minny, but I have (at last) chilled out about it.

[ExSpawniamusChorus]

Arse...have just read all this thread and see it's moved on since the OP. Sorry!