What is the normal height for a one-year-old baby?

What is the normal height for a one-year-old baby?

Young parents are more concerned about their baby's height and weight. According to the editor's understanding, everyone generally thinks that if the baby is taller when he is young, he will be taller in the future. But, actually, this is wrong. Today, the editor mainly wants to introduce to you what is the normal height for a baby when he is one year old. Parents can learn about it.

Newborns whose height and weight are shorter and lighter than normal newborns of the same gestational age will not be able to grow normally in the future, and may even affect their height in adulthood. Timely correction should be made.

Paying attention to fetal health care is very necessary to prevent and reduce short stature, but a newborn who is too large, for example, weighing more than 4000 grams, may not be tall as an adult. There is no obvious relationship between adult height and macrosomia, and macrosomia brings certain risks to the mother, so a "big fat baby" should not be the goal to be pursued. If the height and weight ratio is unbalanced, for example, being tall but light, it is a sign of an unhealthy body shape and the cause should be found and balanced in time.

The following observations or calculations can be made to determine whether the child's height growth rate is normal: 1. The normal height of a child over six months old should be: at one year old, the height is equal to the height at birth + 25 cm, at two years old, the height is equal to the height at one year old plus 10 cm, and the height between 2 and 12 years old is equal to the age × 5 plus 75 cm.

Children's growth rate may be fast or slow. It is normal for them to grow fast first and then slow, or slow first and then fast. It is necessary to carefully identify whether the slow growth rate is pathological. If the average annual growth rate of children over 2 years old is less than 5 cm, it reflects slow growth and they need to go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time.

The above is some relevant knowledge about the height of one-year-old babies that the editor wants to introduce to you today. You can learn about it. I hope that the editor’s sharing will be helpful to everyone. When the baby is young, mothers should supplement the baby with more calcium, so that the baby's bones can develop better and the baby may grow taller in the future.

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