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I know right! It's terrible making parents feel like they are doing something wrong. On the WHO chart, DS is just above the 85th percentile, makes sense so I am going with that!
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The reverse can be true too. My DD is fairly tall and was 19kg when she was nine. Not sure what she is now. Her BMI put her at underweight but she is not. She's just lean.
You know when a child is overweight/underweight and it isn't because of the random calculation of BMI.
Don't fret.
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What? Where are they checking these kids BMI?? My DD's have never had their BMI done. I don't take them anywhere they would though, lol, oops, am I supposed to? I took them to the MCHN when they were babies but gave up on that pretty quick because they look ok to me, lol, and they just kept trying to give me dodgy advice.
Anywho, I wouldn't worry, BMI is a pretty stupid sort of a measurement, I have no idea why they still use it xx
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Re: Is there anything to worry about being heavy?
Heaven - yes it is MCHN - I find it useful to go because give info on kinders and other local activities etc - I know next to no one with older kids than mine in my council area so is useful. I also like going to the community things they organise.
I do think the BMI thing is silly but really was more worried that just being 'heavy' can be problematic but obviously it isn't that uncommon judging from this thread and is just all the kids mine interact with are on the light side.
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you need to bring CJ to hang out with E - she is heavier than CJ!! i've seen pics of your DD and she most definitely isn't overweight (IMO) - you must have lots of "dainty" kidlets in your friends group!
she was weighed and observed by several nurses in emergency, as well as the paed on call, who all said she seemed to be happy and (generally) healthy and her weight was fine. the two GP's she seen this week also both weighed her and nothing was said about her weight at all.
i understand there has to be some way of checking children for health problems, but i struggle with the fact DD is labelled as obese - anyone that has heard she has been labelled obese has been mighty angry about it. she isn't skin and bones, but she isn't rolly polly either! she is a very active little poppet, she's happy, she's healthy (well, mostly!), she eats a very healthy diet. i'm not too phased by it all...
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I think that is the thing - my view of what is normal had been swayed by lifting all her friends.
You have to wonder is it helpful to anyone to have charts that seem so wildly off.
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yeah, our next door neighbour has a dainty son who is 12 months older than E, so i sometimes feel that she is "heavy" but then my friend has a son that is even stockier than E so i get over it. i try not to let myself over analyse it all or it will do my head in! lol
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Is there anything to worry about being heavy?
My daughter is 7 and born the exact day as her best friend. There's a head's height difference between them and my daughter is the tallest in her class (and almost the tallest in the grade above!) My daughter is 30 kgs and is bloody heavy- but perfectly in proportion as though she were 9 or 10. (She is taller than some of those, too). She came home today from PCYC and told me a kid asked her if she was a teenager and if she went to high school!
Point is, we're all Australian- (mostly) no one knows their full family pedigree and its pretty rare your kids will have un-related playmates of similar age that will be exact size! My daughters scattered family history includes a smattering of Maori on her dads side along with solid Nothern Irish, English and on my side, Croatian (generally shorter but stocky, looking at my relatives) and my mum was adopted in South Africa so there's anyone's guess!!
I guess what I'm saying, with all our marvellous mixed gene pools kicking around Australia.. It's a rare thing to find a kid as 'normal size' and there's a reason BMI is percentile. Percentile is very different to 'average'. And if I know one thing about the 'health care industry', if they can invent a statistic and mould it for their own benefit, they will. I always chuck my daughter on the scales at doctor and check height myself at the end of appointment while he writes notes! None of his damn business how much we weigh and measure.
Remember- there is NO normal!!
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As we know her friends from Mothers Group in the main they are all within a few days of each other and all the same height more or less - I think that is why I was worrying if it could 'heaviness' could be an indication of something wrong because if you mainly only know 4 -3.5 year olds and they all look more or less the same (3 being almost the same weight with DD being different) understanding a 3kg difference seemed odd, and the nurse pointing out the BMI just made me think about the heaviness again.
Oh we are originally from the UK by the way, and our family gene pool is distinctly uninteresting but I get what you are saying.
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As someone else said ... pfffft. DS2 turned 3 one month ago and is 17.8kg. However, he's tall and a solid build. He's a bigger boy all round compared to many others his age. No one has checked his BMI and no one is going to as he's not overweight. He's just a big, healthy boy whose diet is - mainly - very good. Do not listen to any talk about your child being overweight if you know she's not.
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