Since DD's 2 year check I've been worrying a little about her weight and am hoping someone can either reassure me or steer me in the right direction.
She is 83cm tall and according to the weigh-in weighs 11.2 kg (she wouldn't stay still so this is a bit of an estimate, I think, and she was fully clothed). Although she eats a decent diet (eats v well at nursery, more shenanigans at home but basically ok) I've never worried too much about fat content in her food (partly because I don't worry about it for myself). I've always thought of her as rather dinky, but I checked her BMI on the NHS child calculator and it suggests she is over the 80th centile for BMI. I realise that the unhealthy range kicks in at the 95th centile, but I was a bit shocked that she is seemingly not far off that and want to avoid her having any weight issues. She is very unlikely to be tall: I'm 5'3 and DH is 5'5 so a massive height spurt doesn't seem very likely. Although I work very hard to keep her active at the weekend (we spend 2-3 hours walking round the park in the mornings and then do as much active play as I can get her to do at the weekends), she is not very active naturally. She has only been able to run for the past couple of months and won't run very far even when I make it a game. She has started to get the hang of her scooter but needs quite a lot of gentle cajoling to do it, and she hated swimming when I took her a few weeks ago. She is otherwise ok (although definitely not advanced) in terms of physical development: she has started doing little jumps and is good at climbing. I was not very active as a child and was probably heavier than I should have been as a result, although both DH and I have always been slim as teenagers/adults.
Dietwise she eats well at nursery (menu looks very healthy to me) and I am strict about not giving her cake, ice-cream, juice, chocolate etc. She does sometimes eat more carbs (e.g.avo on toast) than I would like at home but only when she's really kicked off about my home-cooked food and I don't want her to go to bed hungry. Generally refuses pasta but will eat e.g. chicken and tomato stew with couscous, gazpacho with lentil cakes.
I really want to help her and do everything I can to help her grow into one of the active, slim kids I see running around. Can anyone provide any advice? Happy to admit I am an anxious parent.