Is my daughter’s height abnormal?

[Jasmina123]

Hi everyone,
My daughter is 11 years 8 months.
very healthy, very active doing swimming and taekwondo. but I started worrying when strangers started commenting on her height.
my daughter is 5' 9".
I am thinking to take her to the GP but I don’t want her to lose confidence in this critical age thinking there is something wrong with the way she looks.
What worrys me the most is the fact that me and my partner do not have the tall genes..
I am 5' 6” and my partner is 5’ 8” and all our family members are average to short.
my mum is 5’ 1”.
shall I over come my worries and seek professionals’ advice?
is this going to give my daughter a negative image about her appearance?

5'9", that's just a wonderful height.. Same as me..I always wanted to be 5'10" as that used to be minimum height for catwalk model.
That's my excuse anyway for never getting to flounce.
Next tallest family member same age is my brother at 5'7"
Was this height ridiculously young and never got taller, used to wear very high heels to be over 6ft .. It's brilliant at gigs!
Make sure she knows she's beautiful and stands very tall, crunching herself down if she gets self conscious is not good.

Don't see a problem, being tall is an absolute joy! I shot up to 5'11'' between 11-12 during summer holidays. Well to be fair, I'm from a 'tall' country, so none of my classmates were very short. That said, I was still the second tallest person in the class (after one boy).

My mum's a munchkin at 5.4, dad's my height - 5.11. Grandparents range from munchkins to average. So no massively tall people in my family.

I've reached my full height then and stopped growing at 12. I absolutely love being tall, two of my besties (females) are taller than me and I wouldn't mind being 6 foot or bit above. It's brilliant, statuesque, legs for days, what's not to like. I'm just hoping my DD will be tall, she's also 11 now and only 5.3, hopefully will grow more. I'm tall and her dad (my ex) was 6.4

I was 5'11 in year 6 with size 9 feet. Hadn't started my period (until I was 15).

That is still my hight.

Final adult height is not just about genetic phenotype though - there is an environment/diet component - there was a very interesting study done years ago (I was taught about it as a student when we were looking at which skeletal traits such as stature have high heritability) looking at the children of migrants from the far east (China, Japan etc) to the US whose parents were relatively short and why all their children born in the US were much taller as adults.

It was concluded (from memory) that they were able to achieve their genetic potential whereas something in the environment /diet/childhood health of their parents prevented them from doing so.

There are conditions like pituitary tumours, that can cause abnormal growth and it’s better to know that now rather than when it’s too late to do anything about it. No harm in taking her to the GP for peace of mind.

The problem with asking on a wide forum like this is that you get all the exceptions not the rules.

I'd speak to gp, mention quick growth, not in puberty yet and your own heights and see what they say.

With regards to your dd focus on building her confidence and if she raises any concerns reassure her in the next couple of years there will be plenty of others her height

I’d definitely have blood tests done to check hormone levels are okay, especially as she hasn’t reached puberty yet.

No definitely do not take her to your doctor.

I noticed this at my DS's primary school with a couple of girls.

Now ar 16/17 they are exactly the same height.

Please do not make her self conscious.

She is very tall for a woman, let alone a prepubescent girl (you say she hasn't started puberty at all?) who doesn't have tall parents or grandparents. You are above average for a woman but your husband is a bit short for a man so I would've thought your DD would've been your height or slightly smaller by the time she's an adult. I think you should take her to the GP, especially as she hasn't always been tall.

Definitely?

do not seek medical attention because you knew two girls who were tall early on then evened out?

so because two girls you know did not have an underlying issue, then o/p’s dd doesn’t?

do you know anything about their history? Parental height?

come on. I know 2 people who don’t have breast cancer. Doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

there are medical causes of growth, as pp mentioned pituitary tumours and growth hormone disorders. These need ruling out in this child as she is prepubescent and taller than both her parents.

if there is an underlying issue it needs sorting now, before her bones and organs are affected.

I think, as others have said, I would take her to the doctor's to set your mind at rest if this is worrying you although I don't think 5'9" is oddly tall these days and I don't see any issue with children being taller than their parents as final height, growth rate, catch-up growth is not just determined by the genes.

I would pitch it to your daughter that it is just that she has achieved the height very early and before menarche not that she is weirdly tall because she isn't.

I have three DD and they all grew at different times/ages with spurts here and there and there is a good 6" difference in their heights!

Hi,
I came here because I was googling if my daughter was abnormal 😅
I'm 5'9 my husband is 6ft she's 11 and is 5'10 and size 8 foot just starting High school I get so many comments on her size I'm glad I'm not the only one!

What happened in the end op?

I grew very early- was the tallest in my class by a good head's worth at the end of primary - ended up at 5ft 9 as an adult- it's a really great elegant height to be, I love it. I'm not sure when I stopped growing exactly but it was fairly early on I think and the boys eventually started to overtake me. It might be worth a check up but it doesn't make me unduly worried for you.

This warrants a GP visit

By 11 I had size 9 feet. By 13 I was 5’ 10”. My school friend was petite. Our mothers saw us together and later met en route to the doctor to consult about their daughter’s excessive/ lack of height.

They both went home.

Would you say she is all in proportion ok? Or would she have very long limbs ? There are medical conditions that can cause this along with some eye problems although usually picked up at a younger age

If you are having difficulties accessing GP a quick opticians appointment might do no harm in the meantime.