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.

Was just going to say she doesn't eat that much solids that you would need to cut the pouches, (you already knew the calories anyway), but thinking about it again my dd2(3yo) loved pouches and she is the chunkiest of my 3 (compared to when they were that age). Probably a coincidence though.

Maybe babyled weaning with bits of real food would be worth considering, they have to work a bit harder to pick up and eat the foods and the food is less processed so harder to eat? I avoided fruity baby food for my ds and he now loves veg but you can't really win though as he is fussy about other food and I worry he is too skinny!

My ds was the opposite and was on the smaller side. I got a hospital referal via hv so any other causes can be ruled out. It is worth investigating so nothing is missed?

Good feedback on the food.

I never give her fruity pouches - only savoury with added butter or cheese to stop them being carby and low fat (they have virtually no fat in them).

The problem with the blw approach is that she doesn't eat in the day and then she sucks me dry in the middle of the night. She goes back to sleep and I have to make myself toast as I've done now, after a day when I let her refuse most of her solids.

But maybe I should suck it up, so to speak. Maybe I should go off formula and back to breast in the day god help me.

Anyway once this move is over I am going to be BLW-tastic.

I am going to row back a bit on the pouches and resign myself to toast at 4am.

scubadiver yes she is big, she is scaled up but she isn't unduly fat for a 9mo. She would be fat if she was 2 but she's not, she's 9 months. She's one of the chubbier 9 mo but nothing crazy.

She is however spectacularly heavy. Interested in this muscle tone thing. If bones can't vary in density/weight then maybe muscle can. she seems too heavy for how big she looks even.

she is very strong, a champion grabber and it's hard to get anything back,

Re the growth chart she would be on the 75th percentile for weight if she was 21 months, and she is the height of a 21 month old, more or less. Not sure how to measure it but she is in18-24 month clothes much of the time.

Hmmm.

Will go to Gp and report back.

I understand everyone's shock - when I found out that was what she weighed (she was 8 months and 26lb) I was totally freaked out.

I suspect all any GP or other doc will diagnose is what's right in front of them - that this is a big baby. Sounds like she is exceptionally tall too so no surprise she's heavy. She is clearly from what the OP has said happy and well and developing normally so I see no need to wring hands or change anything.
I'm at the pouch handwringing. The time this baby is taking in most calories is undoubtedly in the night breastfeeds. OP - I do sympathise. I had a baby like that. It's draining in every sense :)

When you "let" her refuse the food do you replace with a bf?

If you dropped lunch could you replace with a bf and increase her milk intake in the day. ?

Mine was 11 kg at that age (I've just checked) so pretty similar -- and has always stayed solid, verging on overweight, so I'd keep an eye on it while she's too young to argue!

She also is very tall with a ridiculously tall dad. I blame him...

Just measured her. 74 cm and 2st. So height of an av 14 mo, weight of av 2yo.

So not in proportion. She looks in proportion to me so either it's mum goggles (she IS gorgeous) or she is v v dense. I think bit of both.

Def going to doc and will review food and milk intake.

Thing about mil is she always hated moving all her life and you can just tell she is heavy for her actual size. I'm sure my dd has those genes too.

So it would need some thought to help her be active.

Ladies you've helped me think it through so much xxx

When I let her refuse the food I mean I take it away as soon as she loses interest rather than trying to persuade her to have a few more mouthfuls. Even if she's had v little. I don't replace it with milk unless she seems hungry.

It's all a bit shifting ground cause she is in charge really as she feeds as much or as little as she wants in the night. I'm not controlling her intake.

At least breast milk is good but it's prob healthy to stop eating at night.

Do you offer water with meals?

I'd probably cut the food and increase the milk she's possibly thirsty and making up for lack of milk and water t night.

Might be worth a shot?

By cut I don't mean stop, just reduce the quantity a bit

Their huge tummys are not necessarily fat when a child is born its liver is huge in proportion to the rest of their body hence the baby pot belly just a thought to bear in mind

Your daughter needs a referal to a paediatrian to find out why she is so large. I realise that there is not a nice way of putting it, but your daughter is morbidly obcese. It may well be that your daugher has a medical condition causing her to put on weight and its nothing to do with your parenting.

My daughter who is nearly five years old weighs 2 st 6 pounds.

My 3 (and me and my sister) have all been huge BF babies in their first year, with dramatically slower growth after, eg dd1 and dd2 have been approximately the same weight since dd2 was 9months old with a 25mth age gap. Once my step mum went to pick dd2 up out of the pram, stopped and started looking for the straps, assuming that was the reason she couldn't lift her! Equally dh and I have to be careful not to throw other people's babies over our shoulders . But there's little point worrying when you could get her weighed and measured properly by the hv and go over her diet with your gp.

bum now that's useful info. My sis had a huge tummy as a baby which disappeared. So that's why.

giles I think it's hunger - last night she didn't feed till 4am when she fed avidly, v strong sucks, I could feel the milk shooting out of me like I was one of those Evan bottles with the nozzle, and made me so ravenous I couldn't sleep.

But I will try - no harm in more water.

More water a bit less food.

X

Wow, that's a big baby.
What was her birth weight?

I had 2 heavy birthweight babies (9'4 and 10'4) and both were really very heavy until they were 12 months. They had almost tripled their birth weight, as is normal.
From their 1st to their 3rd birthday they didn't put on weight, they just grew. One is a skinny 12yo, one a slim 5 yo. The 5 yo still only weighs 17kg (under 3 stone).

It does sound like you're feeding too much. The breast milk alone probably has enough calories if you feed several times through the night. My babies were all breastfed, and at 9 months they had maybe 2 meals a day plus 2 breastfeeds.

What did the gp say?

She isn't morbidly obese - you just need to look at her. It's more complicated than that. I'm Convinced she's dense - which isn't good news, it'll be a lifelong problem , she may never like swimming or jogging or long walks.

Like the previous post people are astonished by how much she weighs. She looks big but not 2st.

Yes I'm going down to 2 meals and going to Gp

She was 9lb 13 at birth

what was she like when just bf? has she always weighed so much? are your scales accurate?

the big tum thing is normal, as others have said, for babies, but i would want a paed referral just in case of medical issues. and stop the pouches!

Why do you add butter to the pouches? She doesn't need extra fat if she is drinking milk...

DD2 was 78 cm and almost 11 kg at 9 months and she was walking too (so no problem with heavy and mobility). She has always been huge and the GP did checked her at the time (and before and after).
I would also go see your GP.

Stop adding butter and cheese to the pouches, they are balanced meals for babies they don't need fat added to them.

Xpost with titchy.

Because they have no fat in them. Annabel Carmel puts butter in everything. Fat has been rehabilitated more generally for adults . But I know babies are different. But I thought babies specifically needed fat to absorb nutrients. Mega confused face.

Anyway it's back to finger food and blw.

somewhere please just take some advice from the professionals and not people on the internet. Good luck x