[tri-med] Re: growth

Hi.  Candace is big for her age as well - she is in the 96th or 97th percentile 
for height and around 75th for weight.  Basically, she's a beanpole.  Her shirt 
size is around 6 or 7 and her pants are around 5.  But remember, she's only 3.  
Her shoe size is around 10 1/2 (US).  Cameron, her brother who is 10, wears a 2 
1/2, which is 5 sizes bigger.  Candace doesn't take Pediasure but she sure does 
eat like a horse.  She actually eats more than Cameron or me in one sitting.  I 
look at food and gain weight but the doctor diagnosed me with PCOS and 
basically told me that I'll never lose weight.  Ah well.  Candace grows up but 
not out which makes buying clothes for her hard.  Cameron, on the other hand, 
is like my husband and me - has a little meat on him (I have more than a little 
lol).  Candace also has heart issues and while she was a baby she had to take 
Benecal to increase her caloric intake and put a little meat on her bones.  
After she was on that a while she just took off.  You didn't mention how old 
your daughter is?

 

Kim, wife to Kerry (complex balanced translocation between the 9, 15, and 18th 
chromosomes), mom to Cameron, 10 (same chromosomes as dad), Cayden T18 (1-16-02 
to 1-16-03), and Candace, 3 (Partial Trisomy 15 and 18)
 
> Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 15:16:31 -0700
> From: tri18412@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [tri-med] growth
> To: Tri-Med@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Wow, I'm reading all of the emails about how everyone's kids are small.  Why 
> do I have such a humongous child?  Annette gets only 12 ounces of Pediasure a 
> day.  That's it.  She wears a size ten in shirts and 8 in pants (she's 
> short).  She had an endocrinologist visit and they checked her thyroid, her 
> bone growth and a dozen other things.  Everything was normal.  I would think 
> that with her heart and lung issues, she would be itty bitty.  Damn heredity. 
>  Just like the momma, eats next to nothing and still gains weight.
> Annette
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