Baby’s weight

[Keeva2017]

Ok I know I am being unreasonable posting here but I’m freaking myself out and figured this was the place for quick honest advice.

I have a 3 year old dd who is a little chunk. Always has been.

9 month old dd was also big when born and settled on to 91st centile. With everything there has been no clinics so other than her jabs which were fine she’s never seen another health professional and hasn’t been weighed since 10 weeks old.

Noticed today that she was looking long and slim so dug out our scales out of curiosity.

Basically (although not as accurate as proper baby scales) she is only 7kg which puts her in the 15th centile!

She is formula fed and started solids at 6 months. She has toast for breakfast, a meal at tea and snacks throughout the day and around lunch. Mix of baby led and spoon fed so when it’s baby led much less food gets in her.

Il call the HV on Monday but I have FREAKED out reading that she’s failure to thrive and may have long lasting effects. Iv swapped her bottle teats today for some faster flowing ones and she’s had more formula so wondering if that’s been the issue.

But she’s crawling, can nearly pull her self to standing, babbles so never had any indication she wasn’t thriving.

So please be honest, have I massively failed my baby and done irreversible harm?

She was on the 9th centile and has slightly dropped under that?

My daughter is 15th centile still at age 3, she is fine just smaller than her peers. I make sure she gets fiber, fat, and protein at every meal and dr hasn't worried about her size since she was born. All will be well, some people are just petite!

@Danilowe talk to your health visitor but small babies are fine, if they’ve always been petite. Babies have to come in all shapes and sizes.

however, having had a baby that dropped centiles because of reflux, when I weaned on to food I focused on maximizing calories so roasting veg in oil, adding butter and cream to mash potato and scrambled eggs, adding avocado oil into veg puree, high fat additions into every day foods. And it worked. You can really maximise the caloric density of each spoon

@Danilowe

Hi - this was my thread! So weird seeing it pop up. Speak to the HV but if it reassures you at all I have a healthy little dumpling for a 4 year old.

Oh really? Was your baby the same?

Yep, she picked up her food after a few weeks and now she doesn’t look overweight and last month HV said she was on the top end of normal but by god, she’s absolutely solid 🤣. I was so frightened when I wrote this post so I understand how you feel but every baby is different.

Awww bless her. How old did you say she is now 4??

thing is my daughter does eat pretty well but she’s just not big at all!