18 Month Check-Up

[Appa23]

Princess Pudding Pop (from the Land of J-E-L-L-O) went to the doctor today. She took exception to the 4 shots.

The stats:

35.5 inches; 27.5 pounds.


My days as the tallest in the house may come to an end.

[MarleysGh0st]

Princess Pudding Pop (from the Land of J-E-L-L-O) went to the doctor today. She took exception to the 4 shots.

The stats:

35.5 inches; 27.5 pounds.


My days as the tallest in the house may come to an end.

What's that percentagewise, for 18 months?

[cindy.wellman]

Princess Pudding Pop (from the Land of J-E-L-L-O) went to the doctor today. She took exception to the 4 shots.

The stats:

35.5 inches; 27.5 pounds.


My days as the tallest in the house may come to an end.

If the theory to double the height of the child (female) at 18 months is true, then you have reason to be concerned. When she gets older, I can help with where to find long pants though! LOL

I'm sorry about all the shots though. Ouch.

[TheConfessor]

The stats:

35.5 inches; 27.5 pounds.

I assume and trust that is healthy and normal. I'm just thinking that if I had the same weight to height ratio, I'd weigh about 57 pounds. But I'd probably be dead long before I reached that point.

[Appa23]

Princess Pudding Pop (from the Land of J-E-L-L-O) went to the doctor today. She took exception to the 4 shots.

The stats:

35.5 inches; 27.5 pounds.


My days as the tallest in the house may come to an end.

What's that percentagewise, for 18 months?

Looking at the CDC growth charts, she would be well over the top line (which is the 95 percent line), so I would guesstimate around 99th percentile for height.

Her weight was around 90th percentile.

Very healthy. She hopefully will be having her last surgery for the congenital nevus on her scalp in the next month or two.

[Ritterskoop]

To get your adult height, measure the child at age 24 months and double that. It worked within an inch for all three of us and numerous others my family knows.

[a1mamacat]

To get your adult height, measure the child at age 24 months and double that. It worked within an inch for all three of us and numerous others my family knows.

Yup, I did that. Big J was 3'4 at age 2.


EEEEEEEK!!!

[cindy.wellman]

To get your adult height, measure the child at age 24 months and double that. It worked within an inch for all three of us and numerous others my family knows.

Yup, I did that. Big J was 3'4 at age 2.


EEEEEEEK!!!

Yeah, my mom told me that back when I was young, she had heard it was double the height at 18 months for girls, and 2 years for boys.

[Appa23]

Princess Pudding Pop (from the Land of J-E-L-L-O) went to the doctor today. She took exception to the 4 shots.

The stats:

35.5 inches; 27.5 pounds.


My days as the tallest in the house may come to an end.

What's that percentagewise, for 18 months?

Looking at the CDC growth charts, she would be well over the top line (which is the 95 percent line), so I would guesstimate around 99th percentile for height.

Her weight was around 90th percentile.

Very healthy. She hopefully will be having her last surgery for the congenital nevus on her scalp in the next month or two.

Ok. Our pediatrician has gone high tech.

When I got home, there was a sheet with the exact percentiles.

99.76% for height, 84.24% for weight, and 59.48% for head circumference.

[mrkelley23]

What's that percentagewise, for 18 months?

Looking at the CDC growth charts, she would be well over the top line (which is the 95 percent line), so I would guesstimate around 99th percentile for height.

Her weight was around 90th percentile.

Very healthy. She hopefully will be having her last surgery for the congenital nevus on her scalp in the next month or two.

Ok. Our pediatrician has gone high tech.

When I got home, there was a sheet with the exact percentiles.

99.76% for height, 84.24% for weight, and 59.48% for head circumference.

The scientist in me laughs.

Because even if your pediatrician did go "high-tech," I guarantee you that only a very small percentage of those measurements are made by high precision tools. So to claim precision to the hundredth of a percentile is as laughable as my students who copy all nine digits off their calculator on a given lab problem, because more digits must mean more correct, right?

Congratulations on rearing a fine, healthy lass, BTW.

[Appa23]

Looking at the CDC growth charts, she would be well over the top line (which is the 95 percent line), so I would guesstimate around 99th percentile for height.

Her weight was around 90th percentile.

Very healthy. She hopefully will be having her last surgery for the congenital nevus on her scalp in the next month or two.

Ok. Our pediatrician has gone high tech.

When I got home, there was a sheet with the exact percentiles.

99.76% for height, 84.24% for weight, and 59.48% for head circumference.

The scientist in me laughs.

Because even if your pediatrician did go "high-tech," I guarantee you that only a very small percentage of those measurements are made by high precision tools. So to claim precision to the hundredth of a percentile is as laughable as my students who copy all nine digits off their calculator on a given lab problem, because more digits must mean more correct, right?

Congratulations on rearing a fine, healthy lass, BTW.

I did wonder about the hundredth-place "accuracy". I know that they moved to a "paperless" office, where everything is computerized, with those tablet computers.

I wondered if they had some secret, unpublished data from the CDC loaded in the taBLETS as to the entire database of kid's heights/weights/HC.

[smilergrogan]

The stats:

35.5 inches; 27.5 pounds.

I assume and trust that is healthy and normal. I'm just thinking that if I had the same weight to height ratio, I'd weigh about 57 pounds. But I'd probably be dead long before I reached that point.

Weight is roughly proportional to volume, which varies roughly as height cubed, so you should take the ratio of weight to the cube of the height. If you are 73.5 inches tall and have the same ratio as the Jello pudding child, then your weight would be 244 pounds, and you should probably go easy on the pudding.

[Ritterskoop]

Weight is roughly proportional to volume, which varies roughly as height cubed, so you should take the ratio of weight to the cube of the height. If you are 73.5 inches tall and have the same ratio as the Jello pudding child, then your weight would be 244 pounds, and you should probably go easy on the pudding.

Damn. Now I want pudding and there's none in the house.