{"id":2260,"date":"2020-07-24T17:01:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T21:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getittall.com\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2020-07-24T17:01:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T21:01:51","slug":"how-many-growth-spurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getittall.com\/how-many-growth-spurts\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Growth Spurts Do Boys and Girls Have?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Many teenage boys and girls tend to want to know more about growing taller rapidly, such as when it will begin and when it will stop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For most boys, a sudden increase in height could spell the difference between being basketball players or something else in the future. On the other hand, for a lot of girls, growing taller quickly than the rest of their peers could cause them to stick out like a sore thumb and feel awkward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Phases of growing taller suddenly are called growth spurts, and both boys and girls will undergo them several times in their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, how many growth spurts do boys and girls have? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Young people undergo multiple growth spurts before puberty ends. Boys and girls have significant growth spurts during the teenage years. However, they happen not only during the puberty stage but also in infancy. A few short bursts of growth spurts also occur throughout childhood.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Whether you are a teenage boy or girl who is concerned with your height or a parent who is worried that your teenage child isn’t tall enough, keep on reading. Below you will find some of the most essential matters that you need to know about growth spurts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A lot of people assume that growth spurts happen only during the puberty stage, which is a stage where the development of various secondary sex characteristics takes place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In girls, they include the enlargement of the breasts and widening of the hips. <\/p>\n\n\n\n On the other hand, boys include the deepening of the voice, broadening of the chest and shoulders, and growth of facial hair. All of these are telltale signs that teens have reached fertility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, if truth be told, it is not just during the puberty stage when growth spurts take place. They can also happen during infancy as well as childhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When you were an infant, before you reached your very first birthday, you grew about 10 inches in length<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What’s more, you tripled your birth weight. The occurrence of growth spurts continued throughout your childhood. Kids keep on growing until they reach puberty, although it is usually a combination of slow growth rates and mini growth spurts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By the way, according to pediatricians, children tend to experience more growth spurts in spring than in any other season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is during the teenage years where significant growth spurts happen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In boys, they normally take place between 10 to 15 years of age. <\/strong><\/em>By the time that they are 16 or 17 years old, most boys have already reached their full height. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In girls, on the other hand, growth spurts happen between 8 to 13 years old and stop by 15 years of age.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Experts<\/a> agree that growth spurts during puberty normally last for three years or so. Teenage girls encounter them earlier than boys, and that is why many of them tend to be taller than their male peers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Even though boys have growth spurts later than girls, theirs are usually longer and also produce more dramatic results. Because of this, when both girls and boys go past the puberty stage, most boys are taller than girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just because growth spurts take place in puberty doesn’t mean that all teenage boys and girls will surely experience height increase. Various things can stop teenage boys and girls from growing properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For instance, while it is true that engaging in sports can help stimulate the growth plates that produce new bone tissue, too much of it can, in fact, stunt the growth of boys and girls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the reason why some athletes who entered the world of sports at a very young age are short. Some examples are gymnasts<\/a> because they require long and intensive practice sessions, which can be stressful to the body and thus get in the way of proper growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And if they incur physical injuries, particularly those that involve the bones, the ability of the growth plates to do their job may be affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many other things can have an unfavorable impact on the proper growth of teens and kids. One example is the presence of medical conditions, including those that can interfere with normal hormone levels and prevent the proper absorption of nutrients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speaking of which, failure to supply the body with the right nutrients can also stunt growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Growing boys and girls need to get calcium, vitamin D, potassium, magnesium, and phosphorus from the diet because the rapidly growing body needs all of them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This is why the importance of having a well-balanced diet<\/a> in children and teenagers, too, cannot be stressed enough if the goal is to allow them to reach their full height potential. <\/p>\n\n\n\nGrowth Spurts Begin Even Before Puberty Hits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Certain Things Can Keep Growth Spurts From Taking Place<\/h2>\n\n\n\n