Worried About Your Baby’s Weight? Or Height?

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[00:00:01]Are you worried if your baby's too tall [music] or too short or too chubby or too skinny? Well, that's what growth charts [music] are for. Before, they just all used to be on paper. And you'd have to go through the chart and bring out the whole chart and a whole complicated mess. But [music] now, all I have to do is the vitals get entered in, which is height, weight, head circumference, and the >> [music] >> graph gets plotted. I can print it out and give it to you right in the office.

[00:00:23]So, we can talk about percentiles. But here's the tip. Most children, even babies, are not perfectly proportional.

[00:00:29]Your child [music] is probably not going to be that perfect 50th percentile for height, weight, and head [music] circumference. And that's okay. Because we come in all different shapes and sizes. The big thing is your pediatrician will tell you they have to follow that curve. [music] If they're following a curve, they may jump up and jump down, but more or less you see a curve, [music] they're growing very well, very fine. Also, don't forget [music] genetics. If you're short, chances are your kids are going to be short. If you're tall, chances are your kids are going to be tall. People seem to always forget that [music] and think, "What's going on?" And then I ask, "Uh how tall are you?" Before you know it, they get the idea. So, ask your doctor [music] for the growth chart if you're curious. Usually, most of us go ahead and go over it, but you can [music] always get a printout, too.

[00:01:11]The good old days were not as good as they are now. Now, you can get a printout to take with you.

[00:01:16]I hope you [music] found this helpful.

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