Yes, long babies do tend to grow up to be tall adults. The height of a baby’s parents is another clue to whether or not he’ll be tall enough to slam dunk. Babies do inherit their parents’ body types — tall, short, heavy, or slender.

How tall is the average 2-year-old? Average height for a 24-month-old is 33.5 inches for girls and 34.2 inches for boys. At the 2-year checkup, the pediatrician will weigh and measure her, and make sure her growth is following a healthy upward curve on the growth chart.

Add the mother’s height and the father’s height in either inches or centimeters. Add 5 inches (13 centimeters) for boys or subtract 5 inches (13 centimeters) for girls. Divide by two.

The average height at age 2 is, in fact, about half of the average adult height, and the correlation between height at 2 and height in adulthood is about 0.75 for boys and 0.65 for girls—about what the chart would yield at that age.

Shoe size generally is proportional to height, so it’s used in many height-predicting formulas out there. However, shoe size, itself is not a good predictor of your teen’s ultimate height, according to the InteliHealth article “Can We Predict Height?” by Dr. Robert H. Shmerling of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Shoe size is relatively proportional to height in males, especially after puberty. Tall men tend to have larger feet than average-height or shorter men….Average shoe size by height.

They don’t change in size, necessarily. But feet may get wider, not longer, as we age. They change in their elasticity the same way other body parts do – tissue becomes less tight, causing the increased width and sagging of the arches.

“Over time and because of gravity, our feet tend to get longer and wider,” Dr. Rowland explains. “That happens after our ligaments and our tendons become a little bit more lax over time.” In addition to getting bigger, your feet can develop deformities such as bunions and hammertoes as you age, Dr.