10’year old on 3rd percentile?!

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Anyone with girls on 2/3rd percentile for height / weight catch up once they reached puberty?

I’m apparently 9th centile, I was always the shortest. Have only met shorter women (other than family) as an adult all of whom were also short their whole childhood.

Are you slim too? My daughter is 2nd percentile for weight

Mine was below the 0.2 percentile at her year 6 check.
She saw a peadiatrician, they did some bloods and concluded she is perfectly fine, just naturally small and skinny.
She is still tiny now at nearly 14.

I'm not sure what weight my DD was, but I know when she started secondary, having just turned 11 she still wasn't strictly tall enough to go without a car seat (135cm?), so she was definitely much shorter than that the year before.
She is 21 now and about 5'4". She grew steadily through secondary and 2" in 6th form! So don't give up hope.
How tall are you and her Dad? If you're not that tall, she is unlikely to be a bean pole.

Are you and her dad short?

Some people jist are short.

Is there any reason why you are worried about her health- does she eat normally?

Seems she in proportion with regards to height and weight

Is she following her centile.or seems to be dropping down centiles?

Does she mind being tiny? How’s her height / puberty development going? (If you don’t mind me asking) thanks 🙏

She’s always been little but dropped a few for her weight / height since entering early puberty

Might be worth asking about coeliac…it can silently impact height and weight

My son and daughter were always very tiny. I think if I remember right one was 2nd percentile and one was 9th. They’re both 17 now, normal heights, normal weights, normal puberty xx

Yes a was teeny tiny until after DC2.

When did it start to change ?

She doesn't seem bothered about being small, she is 5ft 1 so not unusually short, but she is very thin. I'm sure people think she is anorexic but she really isn't.
Unsurprisingly she hasn't started her periods yet and is only in the early stages of puberty, she doesn't seem too bothered by this either.

My 10 year old daughter is on the 0.4th centile. I am short as is her dad. I'd expect her to end up about the same height as me (5'0). She is perfectly healthy. Someone has to be the shortest. I speak as a short person - sometimes it is a pain not being able to reach things/ see at concerts/ theatres/ having to take clothes up. But it is not a real hardship and it barely enters my mind (until a tall man comes and stands directly in front of me at a gig).
2nd percentile is not even that short, really.

I don't think it's likely that she will go up the centiles after puberty but it will depend on when her growth spurt is. They pretty much stop growing after their periods start. My daughter was early, so she dropped percentiles.

We had this with DD2 . Was on 96th centile for weight and 75th for length at birth. However, after chicken pox at 16 weeks she stopped gaining weight and growth slowed. So much so we had a year with constant hospital apts. Worry was her skull had fused too early.

height improved to 50th centile over the next few years but remained skinny. An advantage in her sport.

Sadly puberty hit with a total mental breakdown. I mean really bad , she was sectioned. In a matter of months she went from 6 stone to 9 stone. I was very concerned but hospital doctors just dismissed it saying she was a normal weight.

We have seen her go through several years of poor mental health and actual trauma causing PTSD. None of it disordered eating. Her weight has fluctuated rising to over 12 stone at her heaviest.

After yo-yo weight gain/loss for the third time. We paid privately for an endocrinologist . Diagnosed PCOS.

For the last 2 years her weight and mood have stabilised. Getting a job was the best thing that ever happened to her. Her confidence grew. She is now an average height, healthy weight young adult and still continues her sport.

Puberty was hell

Ps at 14 our daughter was 5’1” and 6 stone. Unusual to grow 3” after periods started but looking at combined heights of DH and I she should have been 5’5” but finished at 5’4”. Her older sister is 5’8”

Both of mine tracked really low percentiles through childhood

My eldest is nearly 18 now, still slightly shorter than average but not much - had a massive growth spurt between 14 and 15, (stopping at 5'4") and started to fill out just before her periods started

Youngest is 13 and was on the 2nd percentile for height at 0.4 percentile for weight in year six. Had to have a conversation with the nurse about whether there were any health concerns (there weren't). She's just had a growth spurt and is in the middle of puberty, so think she will remain on the short side - I suspect she'll stop at around 5' or 5'2".

Doesn't really bother them - eldest DD likes the fact that she can still fit into age 13-14 clothes so can buy stuff cheaper from the kids section, youngest gets a bit annoyed sometimes, but not really upset - it bothered her more when she was not tall enough to go on the big rides at theme parks, so was happy when she hit 140cm!

My DD is still a toddler so no comment on her…but I was a below the 0.4th centile baby/child.
being really honest puberty didn’t help my height and weight…but, my periods started at 12, and I’ve been pregnant and had a healthy baby. Even if I’m the grand height of 5ft nothing!

It’s hard to remember for sure but I’m thinking maybe towards the end of primary school x

Where do you want her to catch up to? Someone has to be at the bottom end of the centiles or they wouldn't be there. Some people are naturally petite. She sounds like she is in proportion and as long as she has not suddenly dropped centiles, there is nothing to be unduly concerned about.

I say that because your worries are familiar to me, my mother was the same with me. I weighed 23kg aged 11, which essentially put me on the 0.4th centile. She was forever trying to get me to eat more, gain weight etc. I have remained petite all my adult life, only now I am in my 50s am I filling out a bit. I have always been fit, healthy and strong (for size!), just small. I have been told previously on MN that I can't possible exist because no one is that slim naturally!

My 10yr old is very tall at just shy of 4'10 bit weighs only 23.5 kg. No clue what that works out at on the centike charts.

After struggling with dcs weight since birth always trying to push it up and after seeing Gps and health visitors about it. Everyone has since decided that they are just skinny essentially.

Super healthy, active and not a spare ounce of fat on dc. Is very much all elbows and knees.

If the gp isn't concerned I wouldn't stress about. We come in different shapes and sizes