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8 month old bf dropping centiles nightmare

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iamusuallybeingunreasonable · 15/04/2011 20:44

Long long story short bstfeeding has always been a bit of a love hate relationship, my dd is. noe 8 months and had her 8 month check this week, and now I can get things out of my head, basically she was on the 75 centile when born and has slowly dropped to the 2nd.

she's at nursery and takes expressed milk there, eats 4 meals of solids a day, is so strong, advanced and feisty its untrue, she loves food and. her mummy milk, even co sleeps and helps herself all night long, she is crawling, standing up so obviously burning calories a lot, but in the last 10th weeks has only put on 7 ounces, bringing her to 14lb 7oz, she was 8lb 7oz at birth.

I was fine with her. progress, until she was weighed at her 8 month check, and the hv has got me paranoid again, in my head I know she is happy, healthy etc, but the bloody hv wants me to monitor her weight by attending clinic again, I can't get any more food into her! and she has always been tall and lean, she has cute little chubby thighs. but no rolls of fat... what am I supposed to do?! anyone with similar experiences who can advise me?

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peanutdream · 15/04/2011 20:59

what types of food is she eating? can you give her avocado, cheese, cream - really fatty stuff...

RitaMorgan · 15/04/2011 21:00

If you hadn't had her weighed, there wouldn't be a problem - and the birth centile doesn't really tell you where they're meant to be. My ds was 75th at birth but he's not destined to be a big baby. Their birthweight is more about how good the pregnancy was.

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iamusuallybeingunreasonable · 15/04/2011 21:52

Peanut - she eats everything and a lot of butter, cheese, yoghurt, cream
Rita - my heart tells me to ignore ignore ignore, but why is there an obsession with fattening babies up to be obese toddlers!

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CarGirl · 15/04/2011 21:57

My middle 2 dds were born huge and stayed huge until toddlers my youngest started of big 9lb10z and dropped through the centiles, was tallish but just so lean, no chunky thighs etc despite being a great eater.

Ignore Ignore Ignore it's just her build.

Also I can strongly recomend gap slim fit jeans for lean dc - nothing else fits Grin

dd2 and dd4 are both still incredibly slim, dd3 is more lean to average and dd1 whilst short is average.

crikeybadger · 15/04/2011 22:05

Has the HV given you any other suggestions apart from to come to and get her weighed more regularly? That doesn't sound very helpful to me.

She sounds perfectly fine to me. Does she have a similar build you or DH?

Her food intake sounds great too, so as you say, what more can you do?

I can't think of anything apart from staying away from the HV for a while. Smile

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iamusuallybeingunreasonable · 15/04/2011 22:25

My dh is tall and lean, I'm less lean these days, post baby, but both our mums were small, mine only 5ft 2 and 8 stone... she's a dainty little thing and I really don't trust the centile thing, I'm really annoyed as o had got over the whole stressing over weight thing as had not been to hv for over 3 months as not needed to, hv didn't give any advice apart from to monitor and stated by 6 months babies should be double birth weight and by a year triple... but were not all the same are we?!

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CarGirl · 15/04/2011 22:28

Absolutely dd4 must have been around the 98th centile at birth and was down to the 25th by a year old - she was the only one I could still pick up and carry at the age of 2! She's settled at 65th for height and 20th for weight, another is 98th for height and 50th for weight and the other is 50th for both - like I say they were all around 10lb at birth!

AngelDog · 15/04/2011 23:18

IIRC, bf babies' weight tends to 'plateau' at around 9 months, in a way that ff babies' doesn't. I can't remember where I read it though.

PenguinArmy · 16/04/2011 02:07

DD put on 1 lb between months 6 and 9.

The doubling only applies to a max. of half the babies, those 50th and above.

Took DD a year to double to up. She did gain weight faster after she had been walking a few months so went up a centiles by her 12 month check up. Like you I figured if she was so active, then there couldn't be much of a problem.

Franup · 16/04/2011 08:43

My over 50th at birth first born was on 9th by a year. My smallest, under the 25th at birth, was on the 99th by six months, and my 25th centile third born was 9th at a year as well. All bf, last two for 20 and 30ms. First bf to 10ms then formula, still on 9th centile at a year.

By the way, having had the oher extreme and having a large child, I stopped worrying about the tiddlers years ago!

peanutdream · 16/04/2011 10:13

iamusuallybeingunreasonable, i'm sure she is probably fine. you would know. go with what you think. what everyone else said Grin

i haven't weighed my 18month old for months?! am i supposed to. he looks the picture of health so haven't even thought about it...

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