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Son just turned 2 and he hasn't grown much. Should I be concerned?

Right now he weighs only 22 pounds and is 33 inches tall. His doctor said she wasn't too worried about his height and weight at the inception of his 1st appointment even though he wasn't on the height-weight curve for about a year. Since last month, he finally hit the curve! But before this he had been 18-19 pounds for months and only 28 inches for months as well. Even in his school classroom everyone says how cute he is and how small he is, as he is the smallest toddler there. I just feel worried that he will stay tiny. Has anyone else's toddler(s) been small and petite early on and finally 'caught up'? 

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  • Anonymous
    4 weeks ago

    To me, it seems like he’ll grow later. Give it time. If he’s not growing, after a certain age, see a doctor. But to me, this seems normal and nothing to be worried about. 

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 weeks ago

    If he stays small, then that's how he's supposed to be.

  • dewcoons
    Lv 7
    4 weeks ago

    I would also have been the smallest in all my classes until I reached high school except I had a girl who was a midget/dwarf/little person (or whatever is today's accept term) in all my classes.  (By random change when my youngest sister went to an out of state college, she ended up with this girl as her room mate for four years.)  Today I am a little over 6' tall.

    All my kids were also the smallest in their classes.  Both my girls are about 5' 10" now, and my youngest son is 6' 2" tall.  My oldest grandson is 6' 5".  (My other son, however is only 5' 4" ????)

    My oldest daughter was so tiny that when she when she was in middle school she looked like a 1st grader.  Her aunt was the private assistant for Gloria Gaither (of the gospel group the Gaither Trio).  She got my daughter a summer job traveling with the Gaither for about four months as the lead singer for one of the children's albums because everyone thought she was 6 rather than almost 16. 

    Over the next year I swear she grow an inch a week,  But the next summer she was 5' 10" (and traveled with Sandi Patty and Carmen the next summer.)  

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