Very Small 7 Month Old - Is this a problem?

[Sophrosyne1]

My DD is 7 months old and very small for her age (she still fits into clothes meant for 0-3 months) and was tracking along the 9th centile at her last 2 visits to baby clinic. She is bright and smiley, is babbling (ga,ga, ba,ba, etc) can hold her head up and roll in both directions but she can't sit up unaided (and wobbles if you hold her hands) and is definitely nowhere near crawling (although she can work her way round to pick up a toy that's near by if she wants it).

I guess I just worry that her size might be symptomatic of some other kind of problem especially as she wasn't small at birth (50th centile). She eats well, milk and three meals of various solids per day (mostly pureed stuff). Is her progress normal? (our doctor doesn't seem worried as she seems healthy and looks chunky, just small).

DS was on 0.4th centile. 9th is NOTHING (and some 0-3 month clothes are huge)

Don't worry. For every meaty, chunky baby, there is a smaller one to balance it out. Your daughter sounds perfect. Think of the money you are saving on clothes!

My dd was born around the 50th centile and dropped to the 2nd centile (which she then followed). At 7 months she was sitting up but not rolling. She didn't crawl until 2 weeks before her first birthday.

I never had her weighed at the HV clinic after about 6 weeks cos they kept telling me she was small (err, yes but someone has to be small - 2% of children will be below the 2nd centile, that's why it is the 2nd centile!!!). I would weigh her at one of the baby groups I went to that was run by the HV team but you could weigh them in private iyswim.

As long as she's happy I wouldn't worry.

Thanks everyone, I kind of knew that is what people would say but I needed someone else to say it... if that makes sense!

That was the best thing about my DS being so small- his clothes lasted aaaaages. He still fits some 9-12 and he is 2.3. Both mine are on the 9th centile and have gone down from 95th and 75th at birth respectively.

Oh and by the way, I do feed them . They are naturally skinny like mine and DH's families.