Should I worry that dd has fallen off the red book growth charts?

[Megglevampire]

Ds was a huge baby off the scale the other end as soon as he was weaned he never looked back.

She was on the 0.4th centile but at barely 12lbs now and nearly 6 months others around me are horrified (Mum especially) as she has fallen below all of the measurements.

She's bright and very contented but hates any kinds of solids I have avoided getting her weighed as I didn't want to to fret unecessarily and of course then yesterday the HV weighs her!

Did anyone else have a teeny baby and all way ok?

I think I'm just after a bit of reassurance so that what little hair I have left doesn't get pulled out.

So, she started out petite and has stayed petite megg.
With me it was more a case of lummoxes in utero and gradual slither down from 90th to 14th for ds and 85th to 25th for dd, both by six months. I was stalked by my HV on both occasions but both are fine.
We have a minute one year old at church and he is the perkiest, liveliest tiny walking baby I have ever seen

She sounds like my dd2. She started off on the 50th centile for weight and height. Her height remained on the 50th, but by the age of 6 months she weighed about 11lbs, way off the bottom of the scale. That wasn't so much of a problem in itself as she was developing fine, and all babies in the family are small.

The problem came when she was a few months older and had one illness after another and just couldn't fight them off. She ended up in hospital with a very nasty d&v bug, and her ribs were sticking out. They were very concerned about her weight,; so was I, it's not nice to be able to count the ribs on your baby (she was 17 months old at this time).

Finally she started to come through it. She's two years old now and is still underneath the bottom percentile, but is doing fine.

Thanks Marina, I guess I will always be a worrier in denial.She started off very badly and was barely takinh 70zs in one whole day of milk now she seems to be on the mend is woolfing down masses of milk but no gain.

Her starting weight was just over 7lbs so she wasn't weeny but she fell down to .4 and now is off the radar so to speak. I didn't think about it really as I thought come time to wean she would pile it on. It would seem she's going to be a right fussy knickers- she doesn't like anything I try to shovel into her! 90th to 14th does sound like quite drop- and all was ok?

Aww Belgo your poor dd Did she not take to food or did she eat masses and not gain ?Sounds like we have quite a bit in common

dd is tiny . She almost fell fo the swiss charts which were even mroe tolerant than uK ones! However noone was concerned as she is just very petite but on the whole healthy and hitting milestones. She walked at a year adn looked at least 4 months younger, so a curiosity. Didn 't change car seat until abotu 16 months. At 6 she is around 15kg and most of her peers are a head or more taller but bright as a button!!

Meggle - she never really had much of an appetite. Very difficult to wean, even though she didn't drink much milk.

Yep! Is now a good place to brag shamelessly about my wonderful pocket-sized ds? Bright kid, winner of the "wriggle through this tiny gap" PE contest at school recently...I'm only little (heightwise at any rate myself, dh is slight but six foot, grandparents were all either short or slender or both...
We must have pixies at church because ds and the amazing strolling baby are not the only tiddlers in the congregation
Both eat well - like your dd. Ds is a natural fat-avoider though and doesn't consume large quantities. Dd has hollow legs and possibly the metabolism of an ocean-going liner.

If she is lively and going fine through the milestones thing are very likely to be fine. But... it really doesn't make any damage for the doctor to check her up. If they find a problem they may help you to resolve it, if she is fine, at least you may stop worrying

But both were reluctant feeders when tiny due to neonatal jaundice Megg, like yours, and both went through a fussy eater phase.

That's me told she is all that you describe. She's developing fine, bright, perky, sleeps well but doesn't have 6 chins. Oh how I miss the 6 chins and leg jelly rolls.

Madness really.

I wanted rotund babies too, not pink knotted string legs and bush-baby eyes, and it does not take much graph-wielding to scare a sleep-deprived mother, especially if you own is getting beady about the baby's size.

Well DS1 was like that, he's 9 now, is the height of a 12 year old, and still very slender. He's fine has loads of energy and no real illness, in fact if he gets something, its his brother who gets it worse

Ds never ate and was off the charts by 3 months. When he was 4 mo he had a pH probe which showed he had really bad reflux. He was put on medication and immediately started gaining 200-300g per week, up from a previous average of 80g!

Now he's 10 mo and positively chubby.

Hi there lovely. Tis ShowOfHands with silly moniker. I was a teeny tiny baby. Looking at my baby book I weighed 9lb at 3 months, 9lb at 4 months and 9lb and 5 months. At 6 months I was only 11lb 3oz. My Mum wasn't necessarily harrassed by any hcps as she was a nurse herself. I was just a tiddler. I am attempting to be modest but I have three degrees, all first class, was a very bright and able child and am just fairly small, height and weight wise. In fact Marina will attest that everybody in our esteemed profession is of above average intelligence I'm sure.

Still can't blow up balloons though. Odd that.

My ridiculously sized dd on the other hand weighs the same now as I did at over 2 years old and she's 5 months. Off the charts t'other end. Still yet to attempt solids as am officially Lazy and Attached to Breastfeeding.

I say bin the charts frankly.

We are all geniuses as 97percentlibrarian states . My mum had the HV on her tail for "starving" me and the same woman shouting through the letterbox three years later for "overfeeding" dsis. Both of us fed the same balanced, generous, healthy diet. I was a spindleshanks, she more of a mini-Chesterfield.
My mum was hiding in the understairs cupboard chainsmoking by this point