Can a breast fed baby gain too much weight?

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Just stepped onto the scales with and without DS to check his weight as he's now 7 weeks and hasn't been weighed since he was 4 weeks. He's 12.5 lbs. Looking on the chart this seems to put him at the 75th centile which in itself seems okay - but he was 4 weeks early and 5lb 13 - so he's put on over 6lbs in his 7 weeks of life. Is this normal?

It's within normal and your baby may be catching up to his physiological weight, but weighing a baby like this is about as inaccurate as you can get :)

Bathroom scales are not usually calibrated finely enough to weigh babies.

Ah okay, will maybe take him to be weighed properly then! Thanks

no he can't
DS1 was on the 9th centile when he was born and by the time he was 10 weeks he was on the 98th. The jokes about having gold top were constant.

It was the same with DS2 Weight gain is good. But With anything to do with babies it never hurts to get reassurance from your HV.

No he can't. Babies have differing in-built patterns of weight gain, which are genetic. Providing you are breastfeeding on demand and he is not getting any other food then he is just following his own personal growth curve.

For comparison, my ds was 2nd centile at 4 weeks, and 75th by four months . His height remained constant around the 25th centile and now at nearly two years his weight is also consistently around the 25th.

He was a right little chub till he started crawling though