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Big babies and clothing sizes..........

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CallysMummy · 15/05/2012 10:21

My little boy was born at 8lb 3oz and eight weeks later is now over 13lb. He is absolutely perfect and growing well ? he loves his milk, what more can I say?

However, having been ?stretching? his 0-3 months clothes so they are comfortable for the last week or so, I have now decided to admit defeat and put him in the next size up....

Am I being unreasonable to be a tad sentimental about this? How old were other babies when they reached the ?3-6 month clothing? milestone?

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Flisspaps · 15/05/2012 10:24

DS is 4wo and in 3-6 month clothes - born 11lb 7oz.

ShowOfHands · 15/05/2012 10:24

DD was 7lbs 12oz at birth and put on 1lb a week from the very beginning. She was in 3-6 months by 6 weeks and at 6 months old was in 12-18 months (weighed over 25lbs). I found it frustrating rather than sad.

ShowOfHands · 15/05/2012 10:26

Ooh Fliss, congrats. Was wondering the other day if you'd had him. All ok? Did you eat curry and pineapple?

bronze · 15/05/2012 10:26

My ds1 was 9lb 14 I rejoiced when ds2 was a pound and a half lighter and actually got to wear newborn clothes

Catsdontcare · 15/05/2012 10:27

Ds was 11 pounds and barely got a few days in 0-3. We has to cut the feet off the baby grows we had packed in the hospital bag

Flisspaps · 15/05/2012 10:29

ShowOfHands No, but I genuinely did eat 24 Jaffa Cakes in the days before, therefore that proves my arse-sitting-Jaffa-cake-eating theory, does it not?

cairnterrier · 15/05/2012 10:29

No you're not silly to feel sentimental about it at all. I had a few sad moments with DS every time he went up a clothes size. Just remember to take as many pictures as you can and consider doing those hand and feet prints to remember how small your DS once was.

7to25 · 15/05/2012 10:29

My poor son was taken for his first pair of shoes, twenty years ago. he was so big that our small local shop kitted him out with the only pair that fit him....school shoes!
he was in a buggy with black school shoes!
he is now 6'7" and still has problems in shoe shops.

MidnightinMoscow · 15/05/2012 10:32

Yep, same here. DD was 9lb 12oz at birth. 7 weeks later she is 12lb 6oz and already in 3-6 month clothes.

The pile of smaller clothes are sitting in my bedroom. I should give them away to a friend/charity shop as she is my last DC, but I can't bring myself to do so.

Waves to Fliss - hope you are ok. I often read back over our overdue thread. We were miserable but bloody funny at times.

GwendolineMaryLacey · 15/05/2012 10:41

I cried was sad in Sainsburys last week when they didn't have Pampers New Baby size 3 and I had to get 17wk old dd2 active fit :(

Moominsarescary · 15/05/2012 10:42

Ds1 was 11lb 2 born and was straight in 3-6 months. He was very long.

Ds3 was 4lb 4 and didn't go into 0-3 months for what seemed like forever

ShowOfHands · 15/05/2012 10:48

Jaffa Cakes are clearly magic. I empirically tested their ability to make the first 12 weeks of a baby's life easier too and definitively proved the link. So you must eat many, many more. Science commands it. 4 weeks, how lovely. Many, many congratulations.

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CallysMummy · 15/05/2012 10:57

I'm glad to see I'm not alone....... the time just seems to go so quickly!

Gwendoline - my DS is now going into the 'non-Pampers-newbaby' nappies too. However I managed to make this fun by buying Active Fit, Baby Dry and Boots own brand to see which is suited best to him. My little experiment has taken away from my own nappy-related sentimentality!

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CallysMummy · 15/05/2012 10:59

cairnterrier - I have so far managed to take over 1,000 pictures of the poor chap and had 200 of them developed. A new wardrobe offers a great new excuse to start snapping again!

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buttonmoon78 · 15/05/2012 11:00

I would never be so ridiculously soppy.

Actually I cry regularly as ds is a monster so grows out of all his clothes far too 'early'

poocatcherchampion · 15/05/2012 11:01

I'm sad today too. Dd is 8 weeks and has now outgrown the first babygro she was bought and wore. And she's just chucked up on it so it really is time.

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CallysMummy · 15/05/2012 11:05

poocatcherchampion - It does make it worthwhile when they smile and you remember that they were not able to do that (or fit his entire fist into his mouth) when the clothes first fit!

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5madthings · 15/05/2012 11:05

my boys all started out in 0-3mths as newborn were too small and ds4 was 10lb 13 oz at birth and pretty much in 3-6mths straight away as he was big and long, ds3 was very long as well, none of them stayed in 0-3mths for more than a month i dont think! they were all big babies who put on a lb a week etc, its very sad putting away small clothes and my sister just returned some little babygrows that her ds has outgrown, they were worn by all 5 of my children and then by her son, felt all weepy looking at them last night and remembering how small they once were :( my eldest is now as tall as me and has bigger feet and ds2 isnt far behind, they get sooo big soo quickly :(

Flisspaps · 15/05/2012 11:08

Midnight I won't read it, I'm just glad to not be pregnant any more, at least I can put DS down now for a few seconds, bloody gorgeous but heavy lump that he is!

I went to sit him down on the floor the other day, poor lamb can't even hold his head up yet

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CallysMummy · 15/05/2012 11:12

Well at least now I know I'm not alone as I open that first packet of Mothercare sleepsuits in 3-6 months! :)

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NeedToSleepZZZ · 15/05/2012 11:14

I might not have the right experience to empathise as after being told ds would be at least 8lb he turned out to be 6lb 4 and we had the opposite problem. BUT, please don't throw out all their clothes, I have just done a baby stuff sale and went through all his old things and there was one babygro that was so tiny that I couldn't bear to part with it , and i was so glad I'd kept it.
FWIW, I think it's a natural reaction to each stage no matter how big or small they are as time goes so quickly except that hour or two before bedtime. He sounds like a gorgeous baby boy!

5madthings · 15/05/2012 11:20

i was really excited when my 5th baby was born and she was a teeny 8lb!! the smallest of all mine and yet she piled on the weight really quickly and was long as well, so now at 17mths she is in age 2 clothes and taller than her little friends, its great that she is healhty etc but she is getting so big and i think nooooo stay little for a bit longer.

i have kept some babygrows, vests etc that all 5 wore for a memory box and am tempted to press and flatten a babygrow so i can frame it and keep it show them just how little they once were.

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CallysMummy · 15/05/2012 11:24

NeedToSleep - I am quite possibly looking at him through hormone-tinted glasses, but I think he's gorgeous too.... and for now I will be reassured that he can still fit comfortably under my neck where he prefers to sleep!

During his last scan I was told too that he would be a big baby and breathed a sigh of relief when I didn't need to push out a 12lb-er. Your baby must have been like the adorable tiny tots that we seem to always be seated next to in the weighing clinics :)

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littlemissnormal · 15/05/2012 11:25

YANBU being sentimental; I have real issues with both DCs old clothes that I struggle to get rid of!

Loving the Jaffa cake theory, 40+4 at the mo so off down tesco to get me some

Sirzy · 15/05/2012 11:34

Ds was about 9 months before he fitted into 3-6 clothes. He is 2.5 and now is just fitting into his 12-18 clothes!

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