My niece has a growth disorder. At ten I do not think she has reached 4 foot. She may be just slightly over it. I am not sure of her exact diagnosis though.
from my experience with my kids that is really small to me. But I must add my son was 11 pounds 24 inches at birth and almost 40 pounds at one year old so he was HUGE!!. At 17 he was 6 ft 1 and weighed 182 pounds of which he was nearly all muscle and would have likely grown another 2-3 inches the doctor told us. He stopped gaining and just got taller and taller. My pediatrician said they really only get concerned when either the weight or the height is way out of range. So like for my son he was always above 95th percentile even from birth for both weight and height. So she told me say he dropped down to like 50 percentile for height and continues to gain weight quickly that would be concerning but since he stayed even on the charts all his life they never told him to diet or gain weight. Pretty much they said people come in all shapes and sizes and he was normal weight for his height so it was not a probem.
So my question would be how would they determine whether your daughter had this issue? Is it a simple blood test? An xay? something more complicated? What are the risks to having the test done? If the risks were relatively minimal I would likely do the test just to eliminate that thought of what if from my head. But I am a worrier and once I get something in my head it is hard to just let it go.
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