Growth & Development Related Articles & Blog Posts

My question concerns my daughter’s size and growth. Siobhan was born weighing 7 pounds, 6 ounces, which is average, as I understand. She is now 12 months old and only weighs 17.5 pounds. At every checkup, her height falls…

What are breast buds?

As a child I always wanted to please my parents. I would have done anything to have my father say he was proud of me. He died several years ago, leaving me with the feeling that he was disappointed…

Taking pride in our own accomplishments or those of our children is a healthy thing. Requiring ourselves or our children to continually accomplish things is not healthy. As parents, we need to express our pleasure with our children on an ongoing basis and to tell them we are proud of them at specific times.

We have an extremely verbal twenty-six-month-old son. We have noticed he is beginning to stutter. Is this a normal speech pattern? Will it pass? Is this something we should be concerned about.
Robin Karp – Hillsborough, California

I have a son aged 25 months. He was born low birth weight — 2.4 Kg (5 pounds 4 ounces). When he was an year old, he weighed approximately 9 Kg (19 pounds 13 ounces). The paediatrician gave him…

My 3-year old daughter is always complaining of pains in her legs during the night, could these be growing pains?
Shelly West – Kamiah, Indiana

My child, Stephen, is 15 months old. He is in pretty good health, and weighs around 23 pounds. He started walking about 3-4 months ago, and I noticed that his feet are inward facing, like / \, at about…