My little baby girl is 5.5 months old and weighs 8.8kg (19.5lb) she is nearly 100 per cent on the growth chart for weight and length. She is still on just milk, I will start her on solids in 2 weeks. She gets 4 bottles of 8oz per day (4oz more per day than it suggests on my tin which says a baby of 5 months weighs roughly 7kg/15.5lb). Everyone comments on how enormous she is (and thinks she's a boy). At 4/5 months she barely fitted into half of her 6-9 month clothes (long body, big tummy, very big thighs and long legs).My husband and I are not overweight and my older two children are average or a bit skinny if anything. Will she stay a whopper as a an adult? Is this genetic? Do I need to be careful what I wean her on to? All advice welcome.
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bertie007 · 17/10/2011 06:16
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