Weight gain (or lack of it) in 4yo

[RainbowBrite]

If he is happy and healthy and eating well i wouldn't be to concerned.
I also think genetics has a lot to do with it.
My DS3 is 9 and is just over 20kg...he is a scrawny boy but I am 5'6" and 48-49kg so he is very much built like me.
My 2.5yr old is also very petite at not yet 10kg and 87cm...very petite like my XDH's side.

[Gigi]

i've had an underweight child for most of her life (compared to her peers at playgroups, childcare, and now Big Kindy).

Early on i was told by a child youth nurse, the best things to go by, are SKINTONE and EYES. Do they LOOK healthy and alert, interested, curious etc.

i give my child full strength cheese and milk, she eats like a sparrow - still she's similar stats to your child. 101cm tall and 16kgs. but at the start of this year, she was 14kg, so 2kg has snuck up really fast, without her increasing her daily intake.

smaller children get picked on at kindy, so it's a sore point with me. Her, in isolation, i feel fine about her being small, but i do get myself in a twist, about her being in groups of much larger children (taller and heavier).

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Thanks all. I do also worry about his height - I am nearly 6', so expected my child to be tall - but he has such a dominant personality he doesn't get picked on at all at Nursery; that may change at school though.

I'm going to go with him being fine and healthy and enjoy the fact I can still carry him around with ease.

[Rach75]

jack is 4 1/2 and has been same weight since he turned 4 but he is also 21kg and 110cm

[Early Kids]

DS1 is about 100cms and 13.9kg at 4yr 2m. I'm not concerned at all.

[Trillian]

Ryn, he's got plenty of time to hit the 6ft mark. I have seen some of the scrawniest boys turn into the biggest men after they hit their pubescent growth spurt. Our neighbours son was this skinny little mite - in his last year of primary school he hadn't even reached his mother's shoulders in height, and he went off to boarding school and the next time I saw him nearly 6 months later he'd grown 6 inches and gained about 10kg.

[MrsFabuloso]

I wouldn't worry about him being small now, my DH was 75kg and about 170cm when he left school (and he joined the navy), then when we met, almost 2 yrs after, he was 6 foot 2 and 100kg (not the fat kind of 100 kgs either)!!