Hi all,

Lexie has her 12 month check up today. All good.

Until they did her weight/height and plotted them.

She has always been tiny, and so to be honest, I wasn't in the least bit concerned.

But she has dropped from the 25th percentile for weight and height (which was where she started at birth and she has travelled along in the 25th percentile for weight & height at her 2 month, 4 month and 6 month checks.)

But today (despite them re-measuring her a few times) she shows a drop to the 15th percentile in weight (7.4kg which I am NOT bothered about at all) and the height she has dropped off the chart. (She is only 65cm long)

She looks perfectly in proportion to me. And of course she is happy and eating well and incredibly content. So on the one hand I am not worried.

But of course my GP has freaked me out by referring us to our paed to get her checked out. His reasoning was that it was a "significant drop" in her height growth & kind of implied it was a sign of something?

(My GP is really sound, he knows that the percentile charts are indicative only, but he expressed concern over the drop, IYKWIM?)

SO, my question is this: has anyone else had a baby who has shown a drop in the rate at which they grown height/lengthwise? What are the implications?