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WOW... how big was he when he was born? He still has growing to do. Might get passed 6'7". My litte(younger) Bro. grew 9" his freshman year of HS! Poor kid has stretch marks! Does your DS like basketball?
He was 9 lb 2 oz, but a pound of that was from my IV and bruising, and he lost that pound within 24 hrs. (I did 32 hrs labor, got an IV drip at noon, pushed 3+ hrs, and he was born emergency C at midnight because his head was too big! then they got him partway out and his shoulders got stuck and they had to cut some more!) Anyways, they kept pumping me full of drugs to raise my BP because anesthesia makes my heart-rate plummet dangerously low. This was the first time I'd ever had anesthesia, so we did not know. I was so swollen after with pitting edema that took more than a week to clear. I could not even get a pair of mule slippers on! Poor DS was big and round and RED - he looked like a tomato. Much of the swelling in him was gone by morning, but the poor kid was completely covered in bruises, especially his face, head and shoulders. Doc said he'd rarely seen such bad bruising in a newborn, and all that internal bleeding caused him to have jaundice. They brought a billibed to my house for him and 2 nurses would come check up on him and take blood samples twice a day. But after the jaundice, DS was very healthy and has always grown very quickly; by 6 months old his height was so far off the charts it would not even go on the paper! He tends to still do the grow out/gro up thing. The beginning of last month it seemed he put on a lot of weight very quickly, but he is now in another grow tall spurt! He had 38WX34L pants that were getting snug on him a month ago, he is now wearing 34W X 36L pants that are looking too short!
My sister and my sister-in-law each had boys that weighed over 10 pounds!!!! My SIL weighs all of maybe 90 lbs herself, and she said it was a painless birth and only 2 stitches needed! she later had a 6 pound baby boy, and that was a difficult labor with lots of stitches. Her 10 pound boy is now almost 17 and is about 6 feet and skinnnnny! Her 6 lb boy is 15, is on the shorter side and weighs only 80 pounds. (Both my brother and his wife are very thin).
My sisters 10.5 pound boy is in 4th grade, and he is the shortest kid in the class! So birth size seems to have no bearing on how tall and big they will be. With how broad Alex was, the perinatologist was expecting Olivia to be a big baby too, so he made a huge cut for the c-section so she would not get stuck. Well, Olivia was a premie. They thought she was 3 weeks early, but they did an exam after birth and said it was more like 5 weeks early. She was 20th percentile at birth, and dropped a pound in 3 days because she did not have a sucking reflex yet and took over a month to get back to her birth weight. She was nearly 3 years old before she took off and grew quickly!
None of their kids have the shoulders that my kids do. I have Huge shoulders, my sister has big shoulders, but not like mine. My brother has narrow shoulders. My husband and his entire family have big shoulders and huge, thick feet. My kids got them too
. Alex does not play basketball. He loves soccer and he liked wrestling too. Everyone is trying to talk him into playing football. His social studies teacher happedns to be the J.V. football coach at the H.S. Everyone is pushing him towards it but he won't do it because he is afraid he will get a head injury. People see him kick the ball in soccer and tell me I need to get him out of soccer and put him in place-kicking camp, they tell him he can have his college paid for! The older boys tell him he'd be able to date almost any girl in the school, but he is not interested. I think once his hormones kick in, he may change his mind. So far the only thing his hormones have done is give him zits on his forehead.
I have the same problem with anesthesia. With my twins I had to have a C because they were transverse(side to side instead of up and down) Like you, it was my first surgery and my BP got down to 80/50. My temp got down to 95*. It was not fun! If I ever have to have surgery again, not sure what to do about the BP/anesthesia problem.
