3 months old and 12 oz gain every week - is this normal?

[elbarto]

HV don't seem particularly worried, but one did say that the norm is 6-8oz a week. yesterday she was 13lb 11oz.

dd is mixed fed, BM at night and for breakfast, and topped up with formula during the day. Well, I say topped up, but sometimes she will feed from me, still be grumbling, and will take another 6fl oz out of a bottle.

I don't force either so why is she putting on so much? surely if this keeps up she is on course to be ginormous?

or am I worrying about nothing?

HELP!

[wrinklytum]

She sounds happy and healthy.She'll be fine xxxx

[SenoraPostrophe]

my advice to you is this:

stop weighing her every week!

but also, most babies will take a bottle even when they are effectively full - it does not mean that she was still hungry. You will probably find that if you cut down the amount of formula you give her after every feed, in a couple of weeks you won't need to give her a bottle at all.

[elbarto]

well she is my precious first born!

no one tells you how much worrying is involved in parenting do they

I will try and resist getting her weighed her next week....(slinks off feeling a little sheepish)

[SenoraPostrophe]

lol.

I weighed dd weekly for about 4 months, then monthly.

ds1 was weighed every 3 or 4 weeks

and ds2 was weighed twice before he was one, bless him.

I remember reading one of those "forward this to all your friends" emails about 1st 2nd and 3rd children too: with your 1st child you carefully vet the babysitter and call them every half hour while you're out. with your second, you make sure they have all the numbers etc but don't call them. with your third you tell the babysitter to call you ponly if they can see blood. made me laugh.

[ILikeToMoveItMoveIt]

Agree with SP, don't weigh her so often. You'll worry if she put on too much, and you'll worry if she doesn't put on enough (whatever too much and not enough actually mean?!)

You may want to take into consideration that you can overfeed on formula, but not on breastmilk. If you put her to the breast all day and night as often as possible (even every hour if possible) for a couple of days your milk supply will be boosted and voila!

[elbarto]

Well I demand fed all day every day for the first 8 weeks of her life and she was still always hungry, so HV advised topping up with formula and maybe early weaning.

Basically breastfeeding alone is just not enough, she used to get more and more fractious over the course of the day as my milk supply slowly ran out and by 8pm she was screaming with hunger. So one evening I just cracked and gave her the emergency carton of formula - she drank it all in one go and stopped crying for the first time in three hours.

[Sushipaws]

Ooooooh HV's have allot to answer for.