Average weight for a first grader
Healthy Weight for Children by Age
Every child grows and gains weight at a different rate.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control, almost 17 percent of children ages 2 to 19 years old have obesity in the United States. Helping your child achieve and maintain a healthy weight is an important job for any parent or caregiver. Remember, every child is a different size and grows at a different rate. If you are concerned about your child's weight, talk to your pediatrician or health care provider.
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Infants
The average infant weight is 5 1/2 to 9 1/2 pounds. Infants generally lose about 5 to 10 percent of their body weight during the first week of life but should start gaining weight after the second week. Infants grow at a tremendous rate, and by four to six months usually double their birth weight. Growth spurts may occur during the second week and sometime between the third and sixth week.
You might notice your baby is hungrier during these growth spurts. Feed her more often to meet her extra caloric needs. An infant will usually triple her birth weight by the time she turns 1. The average 1-year-old boy weighs between 19 and 27 pounds. The average 1-year-old girl weighs between 17 1/2 and 25 pounds.
Toddlers and Preschoolers
Between the ages of 1 and 5 your child will usually gain about 10 pounds, five pounds between ages 1 and 2 and the remaining five pounds between ages 2 and 5. The average 2-year-old weighs between 22 to 33 pounds. The average 4-year-old weighs between 28 and 44 pounds. You might notice your preschooler has less of an appetite or becomes a picky eater. These are normal phases, and a decreased appetite can be a sign of slower growth. Continue offering healthy foods for meals and snacks, and don't be concerned if your preschooler refuses to eat at times or can't seem to get full at others.
Elementary-Age Children
Most health care providers will use either a BMI chart or growth chart to measure your child's weight.
BMI, or body mass index, is a calculation using your child's weight and height that measures body fatness. The CDC has four weight status categories based on BMI percentiles. A BMI between the 5th and 85th percentile is considered normal weight. If your child is below the 5th percentile she is considered underweight. If she is between the 85th and 95th percentile she is considered to have overweight, and the 95th percentile or higher is having obesity. There are calculators available online to determine your child's BMI.
Growth charts may also be used to plot your child's weight. Your child should stay around the same percentile on the growth chart as he gets older. Most children between ages 2 and 10 grow at a fairly steady rate. According to the CDC growth charts, 5-year-olds should weigh between 34 and 52 pounds, 7-year-olds should weigh between 40 and 66 pounds and 10-year-olds should weigh between 54 and 105 pounds.
Sometime between ages 9 and 15 your child will experience another growth spurt.
At this age, the growth spurt is a sign of puberty. This may last two to five years. Usually by the time a girl is 15 years old and a boy is 16 or 17 they have reached their adult height. A healthy weight for your teenager depends on his height and when his growth spurt occurs. Monitoring his BMI during these years is the best way to determine if he has a healthy weight. According to the CDC growth charts, an average 12-year-old weighs between 66 and 130 pounds. Fifteen-year-old boys usually weigh between 94 and 174 pounds, while 15-year-old girls weigh between 90 and 168 pounds. A healthy weight for an 18-year-old boy is between 116 and 204 pounds, and a healthy weight for an 18-year-old girl is between 100 and 178 pounds.
Normal Height & Weight for a School-Age Child
Healthy BMI for Teenage Girls
The Average Height of a Six-Year-Old
by Juel Andrea Updated September 30, 2017
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We all come in different shapes and sizes, and yet, especially lately, with all the emphasis on childhood obesity, we want to have a gauge for what is normal.
Normal is different than average, and that is where the confusion comes in. Average is simply what is typical for an age group, but what is normal is much more varied.
Elementary School-Age Children, 5 to 11
When a child enters kindergarten, he or she will typically be 40 inches tall and 39 to 41 pounds. There is, of course, variance, but in the first six years of schooling boys and girls are more alike than different in terms of averages. When reading a growth chart look for consistency. If your child is in the 70th percentile for weight, meaning she is heavier than 70 percent of her peers, look to where she measures on the height scale. It is normal for a child to stay within their percentiles for height and weight. There should not be more than a 10 percent variance in height and weight percentiles. In other words, if your child is in the 70th percentile for weight, her height should fall in the 60th to 80th percentile. Upon exiting elementary school, most children will be 52 inches and 77 to 79 pounds.
Middle School-Age Children, 11 to 13
In middle school, the girls tend to grow faster than the boys. Upon entering sixth grade, both genders will be about 52 inches tall and within a 2 to 5 pound weight difference. Over the course of the next six years, gender height-weight variance peaks.The average girl will become about 10 pounds heavier than her male peer and up to 5 inches taller, and this is at the average 50th percentile mark. The variance can be 10 inches and nearly 50 pounds and still be normal depending on consistency of percentiles (e.g., 30th percentile for height, 35th percentile for weight).
High School-Age Children, 14 to 17,
During the first year of high school, boys tend to catch up to the girls. By age 14 to 15, both boys and girls tend to be at least 63 inches tall and at least 105 pounds. By age 15 to 16 girls are nearly at the end of their growth period, and tend not to grow more than another inch. It's normal for boys at this age to show increased appetites and grow several inches in height and gain several pounds.
By age 17 to 18 the normal and expected height for a male is between 5-feet 7-inches and 6-feet, with a weight of between 130 to 150 pounds. Its normal for a girl to gain 10 to 15 pounds between 17 and 18, but not height.
Determing Your Child's Normal Height and Weight
Growth charts are a tool that merely tell you where your child is in comparison to others his or her age. The important way to use this tool is to know your child's pattern. There are many fluctuations in the first two years of life, but by age two your child should consistently stay within his or her height and weight percentile. Falling outside the personal normal pattern is a red flag that something needs to be addressed, whether it be an illness or a behavior modification. Normal is going to run the gamut from high to low, short to tall, depending on genetics, environment, nutrition and health.
Encouraging Normal Height and Weight
Although normal is relative, you can encourage normal height and weight growth for your child.
Children who eat the recommended servings of fresh fruits and vegetables, who eat whole grains, and get plenty of protein and calcium from natural sources, tend to thrive. Children need a good 30 minutes a day of activity to maintain health and stave off many of the childhood onset diseases, such as diabetes. A diet rich in nutrients, avoiding processed foods and refined sugars, coupled with exercise and fitness will naturally fulfill a child's personal height and weight norm.
References
- Average Height to Weight
- Your Child's Weight
- About Growth Charts
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Juel Andrea graduated Phi Beta Kappa with bachelor's degrees in psychology and English from the University of California, Berkeley. She then went on to receive a master's degree in education from the University of Virginia. First professionally published in 1992, Andrea's work has appeared in "Bankers," "Conde Naste Travel" and "Today's Christian Woman."
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Weight norms for a child from 1 to 7 years old (table)
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Many parents are interested in how their child looks compared to their peers - is it not thin, not full.
This is especially worrisome for those parents whose kids do not eat anything or, conversely, eat too much. For such reasons, it is, of course, necessary to worry, but only if the weight of the child has deviations from the norm, and significant ones. All children are different and develop differently. Therefore, one size fits all can not be dubbed. You just need to know the weight of children by age. We have already discussed the norms of the weight of a child up to a year old, but this time we will talk about what is the norm of weight in children from 1 to 7 years old.
Content of the article:
- What determines the weight of a child?
- Why are deviations from the normal weight in children dangerous?
- Children's weight norms by age
- Child's weight by years. Table
What determines the weight of a child?
Many parents believe that the weight of the child depends on how he eats. However, this is not at all the case, well, at least not quite so.
The weight of the child depends on many factors, the main ones are:
- • Nutrition and its quality. Proper nutrition largely determines the health of the child. If the baby is not eating properly, his weight can significantly deviate from the norm. It is not so much about when and how much the child eats, but about what exactly he eats. The nutrition of the child should contain all the necessary elements for normal life and proper development of the child's body.
- • External factors - excessive physical and mental stress, unhealthy sleep, climatic conditions, quality of adult care, etc.
- • Heredity. Usually overweight parents have overweight children, while thin parents, respectively, have thin ones. Moreover, it is enough that only one parent has deviations in weight.
- • The work of hormones.
- • Individual characteristics of the child.
- • Puberty. During this period, almost all children are intensively gaining weight.
What are the dangers of deviations from the normal weight in children?
An underweight or overweight child may indicate that the child has health problems, and these are often quite serious.
Excess weight is primarily a burden on the cardiovascular and nervous system. Obese children often have high blood pressure, there is a violation of the digestive tract. Being overweight often causes diabetes. In children with obesity, the spine suffers. In an overweight child, the same diseases are observed as in the elderly - heart and urolithiasis, sleep disturbance, etc. In addition, excess weight can affect the child's psychology - it can become a reason for low self-esteem, complexes, etc.
According to many mothers, thin children have fewer health problems. However, it is not. Few people know, but a significant deficiency in weight can cause infertility in children in the future, both in boys and girls. In addition, thinness can lead to many serious consequences - a decrease in immunity, anemia, bone loss, growth retardation and even mental development, fatigue and exhaustion of the nervous system, and many other problems. That is why it is important for parents to know the norms of the child's weight by years in order to identify the deviation in time.
And for this, you can use the child's weight table, which will show the lower and upper limits of the normal body weight. There is also a baby weight calculator that can be used to determine if your baby weighs normally.
Weight norms for children by age
Now we want to tell you how much a child should weigh at a particular age. But we must immediately make a reservation that all babies are different and do not adapt to certain standards. Therefore, if you see that your child's weight is below or above average, do not panic. The main thing is that it fits within the limits of the norm.
So, the weight of a child at 1 year old triples from the moment of birth. Although this is optional. If you have a hero weighing 5 kg, then by the age of one year his weight can only double, and a small child at birth can weigh 5 times more per year. On average, the weight of a child at 1 year old is 10-11 kg.
After the first year of life, weight gain in children noticeably slows down.
The weight of a child at 2 years old increases by 2-3 kg and averages 12-13 kg. At the same time, boys weigh 0.5-1 kg more than girls. But these are not the limits of the norm, because much depends on the hereditary characteristics of the baby. So, the weight of a child at 2 years old can be even less than the weight of a one-year-old baby and more than a three-year-old. If you look at the weight of the child by year, the norm of which is displayed in the table below, you can see that the weight of a two-year-old child can vary from 9up to 15 kg.
The average weight of a 3 year old child is 14.5-15 kg. At this age, many children go to kindergarten. Make sure that your baby does not become the object of children's ridicule about weight. In general, the weight of a child in three years should not exceed 20-25% of the norm. If the baby is much fuller than their peers, then you should think about the diet. But first, make sure that everything is in order with his health and familiarize yourself with the phenomenon of the crisis of three years in children.
At the age of 4, the growth of the child noticeably stretches, but the weight increases not much - by 1.5-2 kg. By this age, babies already cease to be cute puffy and become like adult children. The average weight of a child at 4 years old is 16-17 kg.
The next year, the child will also gain quite a bit. Despite the fact that the baby's body grows by leaps and bounds, the weight of a 5-year-old child does not increase rapidly due to the fact that children at this age spend a lot of calories. The weight of a child at 5 years old is 18-19 kg. But do not forget that children are all different. Sedentary children can gain more and weigh 20 and even 22 kg, which is also considered normal.
At 6 years old, a child weighs twice as much as a one-year-old baby. At this age, many children go to kindergarten or first grade, and many parents may notice that the weight of the student is reduced. This often happens with first graders because of the piled load, stress and anxiety.
But, as a rule, after a period of adaptation (3-6 months), children gain their kilograms. At 6 years old, the weight of the child varies within 19-21 kg.
The weight of a 7 year old child is 21.5-22 kg. This age for many children is transitional, and first-graders often have a crisis of 7 years. At this time, children are characterized by increased excitability, disobedience. Seven-year-olds react sharply to the remarks of adults, prove their opinion, considering themselves matured. In this regard, children of 7 years old may lose their appetite, which affects weight loss. But you should not worry, this period passes quite quickly, and the child's weight returns to normal until the next transitional age.
Child's weight by years. Table
Now we want to offer you a table by which you can track the weight of the child over the years. The norm of body weight, as we have already said, is given approximately, but it is important to understand that there are deviations from the norm, in which it is worth contacting specialists.
The child's weight table contains the limits of the normal body weight. Thanks to her, you can track how your child is developing and sound the alarm in time if something goes wrong.
You can also use the Baby Weight Calculator to find out if your baby's weight is normal. And remember that each child is individual, which means that it cannot be compared with peers. And the real cause for concern is not so much the deviation of the child's weight from the norm, but rather the state of his health. If the child has a slight underweight or overweight, but at the same time he feels great, then there is no cause for concern. But if you notice any problems, then you should not postpone going to the doctor. If you consult a doctor in time, then many problems can be solved immediately and forever.
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Tables of weight and height of the child by months and by years. For boys and for girls.
The height and weight of a child are the main indicators of his physical development. That is why immediately after the birth of the baby, it is imperative to measure the weight of his body and the length of the body and continue to weigh himself daily at the same time until discharge from the hospital.
There are many factors that affect a child's physical development, for example:
- heredity (you should not expect a basketball player son from short parents)
- nutrition (it's not a secret for anyone that a child's growth and development slows down with a deficiency of nutrients, vitamins and minerals)
- physical activity (for example, playing tennis, volleyball , basketball helps to increase height)
- child health (children with chronic diseases often lag behind their peers in physical development)
- psychological situation in the family, at school, lack of sleep, etc.
How to understand what is normal?
The All-Russian Health Organization recommended special tables for matching the height and weight of children, or as they are called, centile tables.
At each examination, the pediatrician measures the height and weight of the child, compares the obtained values \u200b\u200bwith the standard indicators. Such tables allow you to identify obvious pathologies, for a more accurate analysis, the doctor calculates additional indicators using special formulas.
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85 ± 1.53 
32 ± 6.40 
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There is no need to panic if there is a minimal discrepancy with the indicated values in the table, and here's why:
- many other factors . Sometimes parents of premature babies mistakenly use a standard table for comparison, while there are special tables for assessing the development of children born prematurely.
- The rate of growth and weight gain is unique for each child . In the first year of life, babies develop in leaps and bounds. For example, during the period of introducing complementary foods, the weight of the baby may not reach the “norm” due to adaptation to a new type of food, and not because of pathology.
This does not mean that deviations from the norm should be ignored , but it is better to regard them as an occasion to pay attention and consult a specialist in order to identify possible health problems, or to make sure that they are not present.
What can cause obvious deviations from the norm?
Earlier we talked about minor deviations from the norm and that there is no need to be scared if your child is not growing and gaining weight strictly according to the chart. But what to do if the values of the essential have gone beyond the limits of the permissible parameters , or are at the junction of the norm and pathology?
The causes of possible deviations can be divided into two groups:
1. Non-endocrine:
- Constitutional stunting . Or in another way, the syndrome of late puberty. One of the variants of the norm, when the puberty jump occurs later than in other children.
- Family short stature . It has a hereditary predisposition, in the family of such children there are relatives with short stature. Growth retardation manifests itself from early childhood.
- Prematurity, intrauterine and postpartum injuries.
- Genetic syndromes . As a rule, they have many clinical manifestations, one of which is growth retardation.
- Chronic diseases of the cardiovascular, bronchopulmonary systems, gastrointestinal tract, as well as anemia.
- Fasting .
- Taking certain medications .
2. Endocrine:
- Growth hormone deficiency . Biologically active substance, which is the main regulator of the growth process after 2 years.
- Deficiency of thyroid hormones . More often of a congenital nature, it is clinically characterized by a delay in physical and intellectual development from birth.
- Type 1 diabetes mellitus . A disease in which, due to insulin deficiency, the flow of glucose into the cells of the body is impaired, the so-called. "starvation" of cells, as a result, growth rates slow down.
