9 month baby weighs 2stone - should I worry?

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Hi my little girl is very heavy - two stone, maybe a bit more now, and she is only 9 and a half months.

Everyone who picks her up goes 'oof'. She weighs more than many 2 year olds. I carry her around in a toddler sling.

She is tall - growing out of her 12-18m clothes and wearing mainly 18-24 month clothes. So she is in proportion to some extent.

I just feel she has very heavy bones - I can't even believe her size accounts for how heavy she is.

My main concerns are:
Getting stuck in a vicious circle where she cant move cause she is too heavy, and because she doesn't move, she keeps getting heavier, and therefore can't move.... Etc
hurting herself when she is learning to be mobile
Finding physical activity difficult throughout her life and having weight problems,

my mil I think has the same body and has always been overweight although 5:2 has sorted her out aged 76 a miracle.

Where is she on the percentage scales in your red book from the health visitor?

My DD2 was 2 stone at her 1yr weigh in. We affectionatly called her Flump - fat lump.

She was in size 5-6 trousers as her tummy was so big. Her health visitor wasn't bothered as she'd had a flump herself who was now grown up and thin as a rake.

Fast forward a few years DD2 is now 5.5. She started crawling at 10.5 months, walking at 15 months with no problems. She will always be solid, but you don't look at her and think fat anymore. She's gone down the sizes in clothes and currently is just going into age 6-7 clothes with her 6th birthday this June.

Try not to worry, they do slim out alot once they start moving. On the plus side having a 'flump' seems to mean she never gets cold.

My 7.5mth old weighs 30lbs. His big brother was the same, now a tall, lanky 3 yr old, I worried so much with ds1, that mow with ds2 I'm fsr more relaxed. He is bf, has a very healthy diet and developing well.
The charts are just guides, I'm very used to my boys being way above the top percentile, to give such a average some babies are massive and some are tiny. Don't worry jusy yet!

Should add at 1yr ds1 was 36lbs, now at 3 he has only gained 4lbs in 2 years but is vety tall and solidly built.

Thats a lot I think ! Sorry.
My 2.6 year old is 2 stone so I can't comprehend a 9 month old being that weight.

I think as a pp said perhaps go through what she's eating each day ?
What did she weigh at birth ?

Sorry that sounds extraordinarily heavy for a 9 month old baby tbh.

Oh, I forgot to say that at 2 years old she weighed 2.1 stone, so was slimming out nicely once she was moving around.

Oh, and although she liked her food she had no different diet to DD1 who is 22 months older than DD2 and is built like a rake.

Oh mumsnet you are great, thanks ladies.

She is very energetic - she jiggles and shimmies on the spot. She can't actually move though. She can't pull herself up. She loves standing and would stand all day if I held her. She splashes in the bath, and then some. She loves the bath as I think she finds mobility easy in there.

She has a huge tummy and chest but apart from that she doesn't look unduly fat, more big.

I encourage her to stand, hold herself up, crawl etc in the hope she will reach a tipping point where her strength/weight ratio will allow her to crawl.

She eats half a slice of toast for breakfast, then has 100-150 ml formula, then has, say, a pouch (100 cals) for lunch with some fruit, then 150ml at 4pm then dinner, say a pouch and fruit or equivalent. Then she bf before sleep at 7.30pm and then bf several times in the night, which I know she shouldn't be doing, it's the cosleeping chickens coming home to roost.

Lovely to hear about all your bonny chubsters and flumps.

She is very talk - same height as my friends 21 month boy.

Tall

DS is 4 and only weighs 2 stone 5.

I would go to your HV to get her properly weighed and measured to make sure there isn't a massive discrepancy between height and weight centiles.

You need to find our her percentiles in the red book. you can get the HV to do it or do it at home if you have a way to accurately weigh and measure her.

My DB was 2 stone at a year and my DM is forever moaning about how how much her back hurt from carrying him. He was also a late walker to boot

He is now 6ft 2 and an athletic build, certainly not overweight at all.

My EBF DD was 26lb and very tall at 9mo, 3 months after starting solids- I think she was getting on to the really tasty stuff but still wanting a lot of milk (including night feeds like your DD)

It was hilarious as she was sooooo chubby and cute.

Health visitor always used to say she'd be far more concerned if she was underweight or losing it as she was following her percentiles.

She gained a pound a week in her first four weeks but then she got really lean at 15/16 months when she started walking (which also meant she was extra tired so the night feeds dropped as well then.)

You know what she eats and my opinion (with my DD) was that the frequent (and I mean 3-5) night feeds were turning her into a 'Flump'- maybe it's the same for your DD?

I think you are doing as much as you can encouraging her to move about :)

She sounds delicious, I'd love a cuddle.

Just had a look in my baby's red book. Your child is off the charts. I would ask to be referred to paediatrics.

I would agree that she should be weighed properly & measured by your health visitor , then plotted accurately on centile charts.

Her diet does not sound excessive, although it's hard to guage portion sizes on the internet!!

Are you/her father tall?

I think you need to get her properly measured as well to make sure she's "in proportion"

It sounds massive though I have to say . Both mine were three before hitting the two stone mark.

But don't panic just yet. Find out her length

You need to see your HV and get her height and weight recorded on the centile charts. They will then be able to tell you if any action needs to be taken.

Do her height and weight follow approx the same centiles? I have a huge 7.5 month old, 99th centile for both and she was born 25th centile, but shes fine.

My almost 3yo is less than 2 stone! He's 22lb7 right now. He is a bit underweight due to a restricted diet for allergy reasons, but he's still on the 25th Centile, so not scarily underweight.

Well my DS was 2st 4 at 18 months and is now 2st11 at 5 years old. He was a chunk who has just grown upwards and stretched out. 2st is heavy but if she's active and in proportion it's nothing to worry about.

She is up in the white space an inch beyond the furthest line. She's the biggest baby on mn.

Yes her dad is tall, 6'3".

She's tall - height of twice her age - so it's not just fat.

I am quite reassured by the huge babies who then grew really slowly.