dd too tall !

[hunnybunny]

reassurance please! took dd aged 12months to health visitor for length/weight check and was told as she was just over 100th percentile for both she was 'too big'. think hv took pleasure in scaring me saying it could be hormone problem. gp was bit more reassuring but still referred us to hospital paed . dd has always been long - even at 12week ultrasound scans but now it's being seen as a 'problem' and i'm panicking !

I dont have any experience of this but try not to worry, I know thats easier said than done. The health visitor is exactly that and not specialist and was wrong to try and diagnose and upset you.Your GP may simply be airing on the side of caution as he is not paed. Was anything mentioned re scan or when dd was born? Children do seem to be much bigger and taller now. Hopefully your appointment will come through quickly and your mind will be set at rest.

Has your dd's growth more-or-less paralleled the curve on the published charts? If so, then perhaps she is just naturally tall? Are you or your husband tall?

At birth my ds's length was over 99.5 centile (but either the midwife made a mistake then or the HV did later on, because when she measured him at 4w he appeared to have shrunk 5cm! ) and he was 98th centile at 8m. There was never any suggestion that it might be abnormal. Perhaps because dh and I are both tall. Now at 4yo ds is 75th centile, and has grown in fits and starts throughout. As my mil puts it 'He grows out-and-then-up, out-and-then-up.'

what my friends HV suggested for her DS was to find out what age her daughter height fitted the 50th percentile of and follow that curve, if he deviated from that then panic!! so he's now 3 but following the curve for a 50th percentile 4.5 year perfectly. Are you and your partner tall?

Hiya Hunnybunny,

Don't get me started on health visitors, I have had more arguments with them over my dd. I'm not saying that all health visitors are the same, I just don't feel I have good ones at my surgery.

I was told EXACTLY the same as you, at 12 months my daughter was quite a bit over the percentile for both height and weight. They said that I had to stop feeding her too much - puuuurlease.

The thing is her daddy is 6ft 4" and I'm 5ft 11" so she was bound to be tall, she is now 5 and doing very very well at school, she is one of the tallest in her year, but then again so was I, she is excelling at ballet and PE, so in my experience the health visitors comments were totally unfounded.

My second dd who is nearly 3 is going the same way, she is in clothing for 4-5 years old, purely for her height and clothes have to be taken in at the waist.

Please don't worry, if you would like to talk please contact me through CAT.

thanks to everyone - feeling bit less panicky now! dd was always around 75th percentile for weight and around 90th for height so to be over 100th on both was a bit of a shock and so was talk of hormones and specialists . also i am 5ft7 and my husband is 5ft11 so we're not especially tall nor is our 3 yr old son. however once i'm reassured that there's no real problem and that she just happens to be the tallest in her age group then if she's gracing the catwalks one day then so be it!