Has anyone dealt with this issue? I am pretty horrified at the idea of daily growth hormone injections for years... on the other hand, I am not sure that letting my child grow up a midget/dwarf/little person or whatever, when I had the choice not to do so, would be something she would thank me for later either.
She is 15.5 months, 27.75" long and 17 lbs and still wearing some of her 3-6 month clothing, although much of the 6-9 is finally fitting (when she doesn't crawl out of it). She was 8 lbs 8 oz at birth...
Her bloodwork done by my son's pediatric endocrinologist (great, now two of my three kids need a PE...! ack!) this week showed an IGF-1 of 28, with the normal range being 51-303. The nurse's office said with such a broad range of normal, usually even if a child were in the normal range but at the bottom, they would still recommend probing a bit further- and Virginia's numbers were obviously far below even that broad range.
Has anyone experienced this? We go for a growth hormone stimulation test in less than two months- by that point, I need to have a fair idea what I want to do/am willing to do, depending on what the tests show...
Delilah
She is 15.5 months, 27.75" long and 17 lbs and still wearing some of her 3-6 month clothing, although much of the 6-9 is finally fitting (when she doesn't crawl out of it). She was 8 lbs 8 oz at birth...
Her bloodwork done by my son's pediatric endocrinologist (great, now two of my three kids need a PE...! ack!) this week showed an IGF-1 of 28, with the normal range being 51-303. The nurse's office said with such a broad range of normal, usually even if a child were in the normal range but at the bottom, they would still recommend probing a bit further- and Virginia's numbers were obviously far below even that broad range.
Has anyone experienced this? We go for a growth hormone stimulation test in less than two months- by that point, I need to have a fair idea what I want to do/am willing to do, depending on what the tests show...
Delilah