My baby is almost 16 weeks and have had some concerns around her weight gain .. she started at the 55th percentile, then in less than a week jumped up to the 84th (apparently put on 400g in 4 days!) and has since progressively been dropping down and currently at around the 30th. She is at the 96th percentile for length.
For context, I had some feeding issues related to oversupply / fast let down and baby with a high palate and v sensitive gag reflex but those have all been managed. She is super alert, nappies are normal I believe (I’ve noticed less greeny / frothy ones as I start to introduce formula) and hitting milestones. We have another weigh in next week or so booked in as I’m moving her to formula so will see what the midwives think about the drop downs in percentile lines.
However, the more I think about her weight fluctuation in the first four days the more I’m thinking she must have been weighed wrong! She was fed expressed milk by bottle for the first week due to latch issues and I now have a niggling worry in the back of my head that the same might happen again -/ we move her to bottles..even though when I look back at the log of what we fed her I genuinely don’t feel like we did! The HV was shocked at the weight gain .. from 3.5kg to 3.95kg in 4 days. Can that even be possible?! Could it be the scales / measurement at birth was wrong?