[아래 글은 독자분들께서 '우리 아이 키, 아는만큼 키우기'를 직접 읽고, 남겨주신 리뷰입니다.]

I read the e-book once by skimming and twice by reading carefully as soon as I received it.
Because my second child is much shorter than his peers, I couldn't just skim over it.

When I first read it, I was relieved that the cause of his short height didn't seem to be a major disease.

However, the only practical ways to increase height were growth hormone injections or the Ilizarov surgery,

and I couldn't help but be surprised that the cost and methods were not easy,

and that the side effects were not 100% verified.

Also, I learned through several cases that the effects of hormone injections cannot be guaranteed, and that Song Hae-ryong, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon and the author of the book, does not recommend hormone injections or surgical methods.
He suggests eating a balanced diet with good nutrition, doing growth exercises, and maintaining regular life and sleep as the best way.
When my child was young, we used to joke about his slow growth because he only drank breast milk.

These days, kids consume too much growth hormone in formula, so the standard height is too high...

That's how we comforted ourselves.
Someone said this to me when I said I was worried about my child not growing tall.
It's because you don't feed him enough instant food...
I don't know whether to laugh or cry...
Unfortunately, heights below 3% are diagnosed as dwarfism, but parents hope that it is a temporary growth delay rather than a growth hormone deficiency.
In addition, the fact that the only medical method available is growth hormone injections, which have not yet been clearly verified, and
the story that it costs about 10 million won and requires injections almost every day is not very hopeful.

[Growth hormone is generally injected 5 to 7 times a week under a doctor's prescription in a certain amount depending on body weight. The price of one bottle of domestically produced growth hormone is 30,000 to 39,000 won, and in the case of foreign products, it is more than 50,000 won. Recently, 6,930 won per bottle is paid as medical insurance only for patients with short stature and Turner syndrome who are recognized as having growth hormone deficiency. In general, growth hormone treatment is performed until the growth plates close, and the total treatment cost is about 10 million won, including examination fees.]-126p

I am also short, and I remember seeing a friend who was about the same height as me in middle school suddenly grow very abnormally tall.

Looking back, I think it may have been a side effect of growth hormone injections. If the growth plate grows rapidly, a phenomenon (slipping) occurs where the body and end of the bone slip, which can lead to unintended bone deformities.-127p


I may have to consider myself fortunate that there are ambiguous parts to diagnose as dwarfism, as my child's pediatrician said. Because he seems to grow more than 4cm per year.
Many of my vague questions were resolved through the book, and I was able to carefully consider the prescription through various cases.