The rate of growth of your child over the early years is quite extraordinary; they really do grow before your eyes. During this time, they have key growth spurts and can experience painful growing pains.

This week on Parents You've Got This - The Expert Guide to Parenthood Podcast, we welcome back our Paediatrician Expert Dr Lexi Frydenberg to talk about growth spurts and growing pains and to share her expertise on when these occur and how you can help give your little one some relief.

We discuss:

- What a growth spurt is

- The key ages when children experience growth spurts or mini growth spurts

- Key growth spurt stages - Infancy, Toddler and Early Childhood, and Puberty

- How girls and boys differ in their growth timetable

- Signs your child is going through a growth spurt

- When boys and girls typically stop growing

- What is a growth pain? Do children actually feel themselves growing?

- If your child wakes in the middle of the night crying out in pain are they likely to be experiencing growing pains?

- What causes growth pains?

- Symptoms of growth pains

- How common growth pains are

- Key ages children will experience growth pains

- Key body parts where your child may experiences growth pains

- Dr Lexi recommends specific treatments or strategies which can be used to help provide relief

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