The growth standards of children from birth by month and years: the growth table of girls and boys by age. How to calculate the growth of a child by the growth of parents: Formula

In this article, you can find information about children's growth standards at different age. Also see the tables of the dependence of the growth and weight of the kids.

At the birth of a baby, doctors always inform relatives and dad his height and weight. This has already firmly entered into consciousness, and even acquaintances in the conversation always ask, and with what height and weight the baby was born. It is these data that doctors subsequently enter the child’s hospital card.

We will further talk about such parameters as the growth of children. After all, this is a very important value. Let's find out how limits the growth of children at one or another age may fluctuate.

Children's growth table: the growth standards of boys and girls from birth to 18 years old

Probably, all parents noticed that each child is developing in their own, even in the same family, children can be of different growth and various fatness. Currently, growth indicators at one age or another are most reliable in the WHO table. However, many pediatrician doctors use data provided in the tables developed by the Ministry of Health of Russia.

Growth and weight table for children and adolescents

The data of the table is based on the indicators of the average data of peers. Children with very low or high growth compared to tabular data should be aimed at examining an endocrinologist. He, in turn, should establish the causes of such a child's development. And if necessary, prescribe treatment.

How to measure the growth of a child?

Growth of a child at birth

As a rule, the growth of the baby depends on the heredity, nutrition of the mommy, the gender of the child, the state of placental blood flow. Within the normal range, if the growth of a baby from 43 centimeters to 56 centimeters.

The growth of the newborn. What is the growth rate for babies?

In the postpartum period, the growth of the baby changes according to the following laws:

• intensive growth occurs up to three months of age (the child grows three centimeters per month)
• from three months of age to six months of development, the baby has grows 2.5-2.7 centimeters per month
• from six months of age to the ninth month, growth increases monthly by 1.5-1.8 centimeters
• from ten months - the child grows 1.1.5 centimeters monthly

Growth of kids to a year

The child growth formula for the growth of parents

Genes have a large role in the formation of external parameters in humans. However, this theory is not always close to the ideal, there are deviations from this statement. Almost every caring parents are interested in knowing how growth will their child be at eighteen to twenty years old?

How to calculate what growth will the child have, knowing the parameters of the parents?

Formula for calculating the growth of the child by the growth of parents

• Let RM - mother growth
• And RP - pope growth
• Child growth - PP
• Then the formula will look like this: PP \u003d (RM + RP)/2

The child growth formula

An example of calculating child growth:

Let the mother’s height - 168 centimeters (RM), and the growth of dad is 180.5 centimeters (RP), then the child will have growth PP \u003d (168 + 180.5) / 2

PP \u003d 348.5 / 2 ≈ 174.3 centimeters

Girls and boys growth

IMPORTANT: Error is allowed: ± 5 centimeters. Most often, girls can be less than the found value of 3-5 centimeters, and in boys-more by 3-5 centimeters.

Periods of intensive growth of children: growth surges

Absolutely all periods of growth of children and adolescents can be divided into the following categories:

• Infancy - this stage of growth depends on intrauterine development, diseases transferred by a child or a pregnant mother and the quality of nutrition
• Childhood - most often growth in this period is regulated by hormones and the state of the thyroid gland
• Youth is a period when puberty begins, the formation of a teenager

Growth jumps in children and adolescents

If the development of the child corresponds to the norm, then in the first year of life its growth increases by 25-30 centimeters. Over the next year, children will grow up 12-14 centimeters. And in the third year of life, the baby will reach seven centimeters. Every year the value decreases.

Growth races in children

But throughout the entire period of growth of babies and minor children there may be growth.

• Already at six to seven years old, a child may have a jump, during this period children can become higher by six to eight centimeters
• In adolescence, such changes are also observed. Moreover, girls have growth surges in 9.5-12 years, and for boys-at 12-15 years old. Growth can increase as much as 11-15 centimeters per year. Not at all - the value is not small. Therefore, in adolescents, sometimes this is accompanied by malaise. Sometimes it is muscle pain, and sometimes noise in the heart

Sharp growth surges in adolescents

Height and weight ratio in children

Back in 2006, the World Health Organization (WHO) compiled tables (norms) of weight ratio, growth in children, adolescents. Those norms that were compiled more than 20 years ago were designed for children who received artificial feeding. Kids, who receive mother’s milk more slowly gain the weight of the “artifications”.

Street table of growth, baby weight up to a year

Growth and weight table for children under 12 years old

The growth of a premature child

For premature children, good care is important. If the baby does not hurt, then he will quickly gain height and weight. As a rule, already in the first half of the year, such children gain about six centimeters (one centimeter per month). Further, they are growing even faster. And it turns out that in a year the baby grows by 26-38 centimeters. In the second year of life, children are leveled with peers. In a month they are pulled by 2-3 centimeters.

The growth of premature children

Children's very tall problems

Parents should be attentive to the development of their child. Too much tall growth in the baby It may be a symptom of a disease. Of course, if you have no tall relatives in your family. Indeed, with a genetic predisposition, it is useless to treat children, more precisely, when dad has high growth, the baby can also have high growth in the future.

High growth. Problems

Causes of high growth in children and adolescents:

• Early maturation (sexual)
• High content of growth hormones in the body
• The pituitary tumor
• Marfan syndrome
• Ethnic origin
• Acromegaly
• Pathology of chromosomes (Cleinfelter disease)
• Obesity

High growth in children

Small growth in the child, what to do?

Small growth of the baby is concerned with parents. And this is right, if this is not heredity, then the causes of this may also be diseases.

• Strong psychological stress
• Chronic pathologies of children
• Lack of growth hormones

Small growth in a child. What to do?

IMPORTANT: Do not let any problems in the development of the child. If you feel something wrong, contact the doctors. Indeed, in time, the discovered health problem is better treated than the launched version of the pathology.

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