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Short fat baby?

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minipie · 12/09/2015 17:10

Not sure if I ought to worry or not...

DD2 is 6 months. She's been on the 9th centile for length since birth - I'm only 5'3 so not too surprising - but her weight has gradually climbed from the 50th centile to now nearly the 91st. She is basically round! She's mostly EBF (has had the odd bit of formula in the past and just started solids this week).

Anyone else's baby have such a huge difference between weight and height centiles? Any tales of sudden length spurts to give me hope?!

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ReallyTired · 25/09/2015 14:45

OP looks gorgeous. Generally heath professionals measure head circumferance rather than length.

I think that baby growth charts are sent to worry anxious mothers silly. Or maybe to give a nosey health visitor a job.