[tri-med] Re: growth

Annette will be 8 years old this Sunday.  She doesn't grow up but grows out.  
When she was born she weighed 4.5 lbs.  At one year old, she weighed 16 lbs.  
Once she got trached and stopped getting so sick, she started gaining weight 
out.  Now, she is a chunky monkey.  She's 36 inches long and 48 lbs wide.  lol  
She is causing major muscle/joint trauma for me.  I buy ibuprofen by the 
caseload.
Annette

--- On Mon, 4/6/09, Kim Ihlenfeldt <kimihlenfeldt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Kim Ihlenfeldt <kimihlenfeldt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [tri-med] Re: growth
To: tri-med@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, April 6, 2009, 7:09 PM

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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