Anyone ever felt sad about having a big baby?

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My DS is the most gorgeous, beautiful, happy soul and I’m so lucky to have him and feel awful for thinking this. But he’s 5 months old and on the 98th percentile, in 9-12 month clothes and it makes me sad.

I know it’s just my stupid PND looking for any excuse to make me sad. But he’s my last baby and I feel like I missed out on the small snuggly phase as he just grew exponentially from birth. I feel reset just thinking about it.

Anyone else ever felt a bit sad their baby grew so fast? Or have I crossed into the realm of the utterly ridiculous?

I had large babies at birth - all over 9lb one over 10 lb - it suited me I'm clusy bigger child felt safer to me in some odd way.

There were a lot of comments - sadness for us missing out on tiny baby phase -which we found odd TBh rather than upsetting. They didn't stay large which brought a lot of pressure to switch to ff and wean early.

Some people were similarly off about DS carpet crawling very early - he was strong and chasing after his big sister months later it's ones who babies aren't crawling/starting to walk who get the upsetting comments.

My baby was born big - 75th centile - but quickly dropped down the centiles and is now 25th. Was ebf until he started solids a few weeks ago. I’ve had constant comments on how my milk wasn’t enough for him etc, which really got me down. I’d have loved for him to be bigger just so I didn’t have these feelings of inadequacy! Rationally I know that he was just finding the right weight for him, but it’s hard as a new mum, you question everything. I’m sure your baby is perfect.

Oh snap. My youngest DD was 9" 10. Devastated that I didn't get any of the tiny baby stage for my last is an understatement.