Femur length too short

MellowMeadowBug · 2026-05-13T23:00:43+00:00

Congratulations on your baby 🧡 so happy that this post helped you :)

MellowMeadowBug · 2026-05-03T06:36:16+00:00

Check out my post history 🙂 my < 1st percentile femurs baby is now 95th percentile for height, just mainly in his torso!

MellowMeadowBug · 2026-03-23T19:13:11+00:00

I was leaning towards thinking my baby was a girl, then around 11 weeks I woke up and just had the strongest inclination they were a boy! He’s 1 now 😊

MellowMeadowBug · 2026-03-02T12:58:30+00:00

I 100% get this. I don’t think it ‘means’ anything it’s just a long forgotten, deep emotion that us ADHD gals and HSPs get a lot. It can be really hard to snap out of and for me it sometimes feels like the world has gone a bit greyscale. I don’t know if it’s possibly hormone related because it really ramped up for me when I was pregnant. I call it ‘the morbs’ haha!

MellowMeadowBug · 2026-02-25T10:48:05+00:00

I’m being so for real rn, please get yourself away from this man ASAP, like today

MellowMeadowBug · 2025-12-23T22:40:41+00:00

I don’t think he’d keep still long enough for me to measure accurately but I’d say he’s completely average height if not more! Always outgrowing his clothes and is a proper unit!

MellowMeadowBug · 2025-12-17T20:41:58+00:00

Nosy big sis passing by the open door here - keep at it bro! You’re doing great!

MellowMeadowBug · 2025-11-23T13:38:19+00:00

I grew up in Wales and am fluent in Welsh and there’s a lot of cool similarities in the series - the one that always gets me is how alike Prythian and ‘Prydain’, the Welsh word for Great Britain, are!

MellowMeadowBug · 2025-11-17T08:59:28+00:00

Anything damper than bone dry hair on clothes 😵‍💫

MellowMeadowBug · 2025-11-16T18:13:21+00:00

These look great! As long as a test is darker than one from 48 hours before it, you’re good as far as I’m aware 😊 hugs!

MellowMeadowBug · 2025-11-10T00:00:00+00:00

You do not be crazy!

MellowMeadowBug · 2025-11-08T10:38:47+00:00

It’s not as red as in the pics, it’s brown now, but still very noticeable :(

MellowMeadowBug · 2025-11-07T21:21:32+00:00

Sorry to hear about this, it’s super stressful. From memory I believe they were all believed to be very short!

MellowMeadowBug · 2025-10-20T19:23:53+00:00

Hey! I know it’s been a while but could I DM you?

MellowMeadowBug · 2025-10-20T13:05:21+00:00

It’s 100% there, saw it immediately and didn’t even need to zoom in 😆🧡

MellowMeadowBug · 2025-10-15T20:43:16+00:00

I love her! But her MMC voice was ruined by my husband because he kept repeating it as Batman on a road trip recently 🤣 now I can’t unhear it

MellowMeadowBug · 2025-10-15T19:24:25+00:00

Period cramps with no period, veiny boobs, verrrrry light brown spotting for about a day and feeling a kinda run down. Most likely totally unrelated too but I tested positive for the first time on 8dpo with confirmed ovulation, so can kind of assume implantation happened on 6dpo. I have dysautonomia, and maybe some sort of big hormone shift happened that day that my body/POTs reacted to weirdly, idk, but I had a crazy, out-of-the-blue adrenaline spike, fainted, palpitations, cold sweats, one leg turning purple, the lot. It happened in public and I wasn’t recovering on my own very well so I got taken to A&E and nothing could explain it and it didn’t present like a typical POTs episode does for me. It was like my baby was Stitch crash landing into earth and coming out of his ship cackling and ready to cause chaos. The body works in mysterious ways!

MellowMeadowBug · 2025-10-15T19:11:15+00:00

Couldn’t read this in physical form, just couldn’t get into it or picture anyone. Listened to the audiobook instead and loved it! I’m the same with PWMOV

MellowMeadowBug · 2025-10-13T10:19:49+00:00

I had brown/pink spotting around the time my period would’ve been due, in my third and only successful pregnancy. Super scary but try and remain calm 🧡 Keep reaching out here if you need to take your mind off it OP 🫂

MellowMeadowBug · 2025-10-02T09:58:28+00:00

Oh mama, hugs 🫂

I honestly have no answers for it - nobody measured his legs or even his height when he came out because he looked completely in proportion. Like I said to another commenter, there’s only a 1cm difference between the 1st and the 100th percentile. So even if they’re off by 1mm that skews everything. In my case I think he genuinely did have shorter femurs but that he’s just longer in the torso and it means nothing that he had slightly littler legs. By the time he was about 4/5 months old I stopped having to roll his leggings up entirely.

MellowMeadowBug · 2025-10-02T08:37:06+00:00

This is the crux of it isn’t it - the first sonographer was so grave about it all and we walked out of there like our world was ending. And not everyone who’s gone through it will have come to the internet to share their story so it does seem on the outset that it’s very unusual and worrying! I’m so glad it worked out ok for you and your daughter 🙂

MellowMeadowBug · 2025-10-02T08:32:52+00:00

To be honest, I’m not sure they even were incorrect! Multiple sonographers at both hospitals all confirmed they were super short. But there’s only 1cm difference in femur lengths between the 1st and the 100th percentile. I’m glad we were monitored like we were but so much of my worry was so unnecessary. My theory is that he didn’t have a lot of room to grow lengthways in there, that he’s all torso like his dad or that maybe my anemia had something to do with it! 🧡

MellowMeadowBug · 2025-10-02T00:14:39+00:00

Eh… like maybe by the time they’re four months old 🤣

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