toriaaaaTRASH

Birth: 6lb15
5 days: 7lb
10 days: 7lb6
13 days 7lb14
27 days: 9lb11



I am getting her weighed again tomorrow (32 days) and I'm dreading it. I feel really bad for her getting so big but I have no control over it.

Tezzy

you are right in saying you have no control, talk to your hv for some advice..


ur doing great babe!

Wobbles

How much does she eat hun?

Some babies put on weight quicker than others I'm sure ...hav ethey given you any idea they are worried & what they are thinking!!?

Tbh I can't help because after a few visits everything was clinic drop-ins ...I went once & said I didn't wish to go again that I knew my contacts if I needed help or was worried about my baby in any way and both of my HVs have been happy with my decision so I haven't kept tabs on her weight other than the home visits, 1 clinic visit & the 3 visits for her jabs ooooo and when new HV came to say hi after we moved.

dizzy65

aww *hugs*

toriaaaaTRASH

They are worried, she has to be weighed every week now.

She is having between 3-6oz every 3-5 hours. I also still put her on me a few times a day. I know it's more than recommended but she's a sicky baby and I never know quite how much she's had.

She's awake from 11pm-5am too! Constantly wanting to suck and crying if she isn't. Trying to keep that time more to her comfort sucking on my boob than on a bottle.

I don't want to stop her eating so much or so often because of horror stories about babies starving.

The fact they've said she now has to be weighed every week and keep asking me loads of questions about her eating habits has got me so worried. They didn't really explain anything, or tell me if there was anything I could do. I guess there isn't really.

sam's mum

she doesn't look overweight though...the problem with weighing them when they're still so small is that their weight can vary massively throughout the day - if she's weighed just after a huge feed and just before a big poo, for example, she could be a whole 10oz heavier than she might have been an hour earlier. i you'll probably find that she has weeks where she doesn't seem to gain nearly as much too - i'm sure your HV will be able to give you some advice though x

toriaaaaTRASH

Yeah they always seem to weigh her around lunchtime, and she only goes for 2 poos recently and they're both around 6-8pm. I have looked at the growth chart and she is almost the right weight for her length (54cm) but she has skipped up two of the growth lines? weight wise. I think that's what has worried them.

sam's mum

They got me really worried about Sam's weight when he was about 8 weeks old - he'd been gaining loads then suddenly gained hardly anything...but I just carried on doing what I had been doing and his weight gain has been fine. I think some of them focus far too much on their growth charts and perfectly following the curves, and end up worrying us if they're not quite average when there's actually nothing wrong.

Some babies do gain weight rapidly at the start then slow down, some start off slow and soon catch up. Where is she on the growth charts compared to the mean line? x

[oh, and Sam was 8lb 13oz when he was born, never lost weight and I think he was 9lb 10oz at 4 weeks...and he's never been considered overweight, so I'm sure she's fine!]

toriaaaaTRASH

Both her length and her weight are plotted on the dotted line between the mean line and the one above

sam's mum

missed this post...sorry - that's why they were worried about sam. he went down growth lines and they acted as if something was seriously wrong but he was born bigger than average and he's been fine for the last 2 months...straight up the same curve.

She sounds like she's doing really well - and if her length is a bit higher than average you'd expect her weight to be too. Unless she keeps jumping up the growth lines I really wouldn't let it worry you - just keep feeding her when she's hungry and I'm sure it'll all settle down in a few weeks. You're not doing anything wrong though - I think they always ask to see them every week if they jump up or down the charts x