Just had my LO weighed and he has had really slow weight gain over the last month. He is ebf and sometimes has a bottle of ebm (just to get him familiar with bottles).
He weighed 6lb8oz at birth, lost 5% weight then quickly gained, going from 9th percentile to 25th.
However, between 3 and 4 months he has only gone from 12lb4 to 12lb10 which now puts him below 9th percentile. Even taking into account slower weight gain in ebf babies this still seems too little.
Over the last month his feeds have become quicker and he has started sleeping through the night but this has been led by him. I still breastfeed on demand and offer him the breast regularly through the day.
Does this seem to be a problem? He is happy and alert with plenty of wet/dirty nappies.
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Weight gain slowed down in ebf 4mo
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fish88 · 06/03/2014 18:57
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