... To have no idea what my 11mo weighs?

[bumperella]

LO hasn't seen HV since July & hasn't been weighed since then. She's v long but "narrow"; she's active, cheery, and has a small appetite. I can tell by looking at her that she's much taller than average and much lighter than average, but she's healthy and happy. She has the same build as me and DH (however did THAT happen? :-). I don't really see a set of scales telling me something I don't already know.
But at a toddler group yesterday someone was horrified that I'd no idea what she weighed. And I've heard so many mothers talking as if weight gain is THE goal.
So am I being cavalier to the point of negligence?

I think you can tell they are healthy enough just by looking at them but think one of the main reasons you're supposed to get them weighed regularly is so that if they need any medicine prescribed by the doctor, they know how much to give and what the doses should be.

I had this problem with ds2- hadn't had him weighed a few months and he needed something prescribed the doctor was a bit . Oops.

I didn't bother weighing my DS regularly when he was a baby, he is now 4.5 but I seemed to be in the minority amongst my peers as everyone knew a lot more than me about percentiles. I then worried that i should know this stuff but knew he wasn't wasting away just by looking at him.

My DD is 11 months and I weighed her for the first time since she was a newborn the other day because I needed to confirm whether she was ready for the next car seat.

worral, i'm not sure if children are meant to be skinny, surely they are meant to be slim. My son got weighed at school recently and I was told he was too light. He has had a lot if stomach pain, you can see his ribs, hip bones but he has dark rings around his eyes. He eats all the time. We saw the Doctor about his stomach pains. She weighed him and was concerned by him being skinny so I'm not sure why you think with children this a sign of good health. I've had to plump him up with diet to see if it makes any difference.

Apart from with my first, I didn't take any of mine to be regularly weighed after the first few months. I don't get the obsession with wanting to know how much your child weighs, you can usually tell if they're healthy just by looking at them.

my youngest is 2.5 and hasn't been weighed by a hv in about 18 months, he has been weighed in that time though- if we get wii board out he'll want his turn to be weighed though I haven't done that since before christmas

Why are babies/toddlers/children always always described on here as being long and thin. Surely not every baby/toddler/child is long and thin just like not every adult is tall and thin. Seems odd

DS was weighed at birth, 8 week check and 12 month check. No idea what he weighed inbetween and no idea what he weighs now at 18 months. He's a stocky soul with a long body and little legs with clothes anywhere between 9-12m and 18-24m depending.

Yanbu to not know bit by the same token others are not being unreasonable to want know. I have taken all mine (ds1 weekly as it was a stay and play type clinic so was more of a social outing until he was 6 months then as and when. Ds2 was more sporadic but roughly monthly. Dd has had issues with weight gain and milk intake so she was weighed two weekly for a while, no monthly except today she is being weighed as I have the hv coming round for her pre one year check and she was only weighed two weeks ago, which is when this visit was arranged.

Hex - all mine were small and chunky :o

LOL Voidka, mine too

My son was 1 last week and hasn't been weighed since he was 4 months

YANBU. DS2 and DS3 were failure to thrive as babies so they were weighed a lot. DS2 is on his 4th page of weights in his red book and DS3 is on his 3rd. I once went 3 months without weighing DS3 and it was very liberating

I constantly had ds1 weighed. As did all the other mothers of pfbs. When ds2 came along we had better things to do especially as it had become clear that a healthy child not only has weight variations - upwards growth isn't always reflected by outward growth - but also because his visual appearance suggested he was fine.

As, in fact, is dgd who is rarely weighed!

DS3 (10mo) hasn't been weighed since he was 2 weeks old. I don't need a pair of scales to tell me that he is well and thriving. If anything, scales cause me anxiety as I would worry about him being such a biffa.

Long and skinny he is not. He is tall, broad and chubby. A complete brick shithouse of a baby.

I will probably weigh and measure him on his 1st birthday - just because I am curious.

Like squiffy I don't have scales in the house. I agree with Hexagon in they are all different & that's fine - mine is long and narrow but I know plenty others who are a more that cute-dimply-baby shape. I've not had to give her meds (I just give the babies-under-a-year dose of paracetamol as she definitely weighs more than a 6-mnth-old would), but hadn't considered the car seat issue - one to remember!