Your child's size and growth timeline | BabyCenter

Your child's size and growth timeline | BabyCenter

Lots of parents wonder whether their child is bigger or smaller than other kids the same age.

To give you a benchmark, here are the values from the 25th percentile to the 75th percentile for weight and height – meaning that half of kids fall within these ranges. A quarter of kids fall above these numbers and a quarter of kids below them.

At each well-child visit, the doctor will weigh and measure your child and tell you his height and weight percentiles. (You can also compute them yourself, using our Growth Percentile Calculator.) Talk with the doctor if you have any concerns about your child's growth.

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