My son Jason, was in the minus 15th percentile for most of his young years.  
The MDs made us subject him to bone age xrays, blood tests, scans , etc all  
before the scrutiny of many experts and medical students who were studying the  
numbers like it would reveal the lottery numbers. Everything came back normal 
 and  they came to the conclusion that " you can't breed chiwawas and get  
Great Danes". That is the actual quote from the Pediatric  Edocrinologist. My 
husband is 5ft 5, I am 5 ft 3, the grandparents were  about that size. He 
finally made it back onto the growth charts at age 12. He  was always one of the 
smallest in his class ( there were 2 other boys the same  size). He made up for 
the lack of size by being adventuresome-bungee jumping,  paragliding, surfing 
etc. He is now in the US Army and is jumping out of  perfectly good airplanes 
and is one of the first to go into a battle zone  anywhere in the world on a 2 
hr notice. I wish I could see those peds now who  actually told me that they 
could report me to Child Protective services if I  didn't agree to the medical 
tests. Jason was always healthy-has never had an ear  infection or upper 
respiratory illness in his life. He was healthy, but happened  to be on the wrong 
end of the growth chart. I think they need to teach MDs to  look at the entire 
picture, not just a tiny part.
 
Barbara Whitehead, BS, IBCLC, RLC
Eastern NC

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