torso height data points

Lee-B-

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I'm mainly curious and looking for other data points. I just measured my 15 month old's torso (seated against wall, bum to shoulder height) and it was about 12.5inches.

I'm wondering where this is on the spectrum. I suspect she has a long torso (I do) and while it'll change in time I'm sure I am curious if it is a tall torso so I can have a sense of where we'll be at seat wise in the years to come.

She is about 23-24pounds, 31.5inches tall and I have her in mostly 24months and size 2T clothing (but she has a big cloth diaper bum and I hate tight clothes). Her torso measurement was in a fresh disposable diaper, her cloth make her a tad taller torso wise.

She's rear facing in a Radian and has tons and tons of room to grow so this is mainly a post for curiosity's sake.
 
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Lee-B-

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She's been on the third slots for many months now...I would say she is now halfway between the third and fourth slots...maybe closer to the 4th but still a ways off from being above them.

I'm starting to think I need to remeasure her torso as I read the 3rd slots on the radian are 12inches...she is well above 0.5inches above it...so I suspect I failed the restraining a wiggly toddler to the wall test :)
 

featherhead

Well-known member
She's been on the third slots for many months now...I would say she is now halfway between the third and fourth slots...maybe closer to the 4th but still a ways off from being above them. I'm starting to think I need to remeasure her torso as I read the 3rd slots on the radian are 12inches...she is well above 0.5inches above it...so I suspect I failed the restraining a wiggly toddler to the wall test :)

Ok, that sounds a little longer than average then. I think my long torso baby (who evened out around age 2 or 3) was on the 4th slots by 18 months or so.
 

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