In a message dated 98-10-21 23:57:55 EDT, Pat in New Jersey sensibly wrote: << I have had several "mimi babies" in my practice who grow consistently and steadily on the the 2% or 3 % line. they are petite, not FTT! You have to remember to look at the parents. >> And at the parents own history, if they know it or can ask their own parents. I myself spent my whole childhood down in the first percentile for growth and as a result spent my toddler years in hospitals having bone scans etc. However, as a result, my mother kept records of my weight and height monthly until I was five and about every six months thereafter until I went away to college. Then when my own daughter spent her first two years down around the 3rd percentile we could assure her pediatrician that for her family history she was on the large side! Elisheva Urbas, in NYC, now a perfectly ordinary if not very large 5'almost 2".