q about percentiles and sliding down them

[SenoraPostrophe]

if your child was born 50th percentile, was checked by doc at 4 months and OK, but weighed in at 10th percentile at 9 months would you take him back to the doc? (no HV here). even if it was a new doc and you'd had a few dodgy ones?

just wondering. ds1 fell from nearly 50 to 10, but I can't remember when, and I can't fnd his health book.

Depends on:

How happy you were with first doc's opinion.

If you have any other concerns about your ds apart from his weight.

If he looks thin to you rather than just small.

am completely happy with first doc's opinion, but it was 5 months ago.

he's not thin. I just had a sudden panic that I should be weighing him more often and that I should have taken him for a 6 month check up. since we're moving away though I can't be bothered to go to a new doc who may or may not be any good (bear in mind that bad docs in Spain have a tendency to overprescribe and over-worry)

he was also closer to average weight at 4 months

ds was born on 50th, fell right down for ages (such a hassle) went back up about 6m and is now aged 2 back down again. i think its just growing at slightly different pattern rather than anything sinister. i'm sure you'd be more worried if there was anything wrong.

They start moving around a lot more as they get a bit older, so I expect you have nothing at all to worry about. The weight charts are pretty out of date and tend towards the heavy. My 1st dd fell down the centiles at about the same age as your ds but has grown quite a lot since! On the whole, I don't think that weighing babies is very useful to do too often and hvs often try to get you to shove food down the baby's throat that it doesn't want and doesn't need, then later everyone complains that people are fat.

If he is happy, healthy, chirpy and growing well, then I would not worry. Babies, especially if bf, tend to slip up and down percentiles before levelling off somewhere.

my DD was 91st centile for height & 23rd for weight
she is now 23rd for both
Im happy - evened out

oh good. I wasn't worried as such, but as we're moving if I don't take him now he won't see a health p[rofessional for 2 months at least.

hey, will i get a health visitor when we get to the uk? he'll be 11 months.

I expect you will get a hv. You are assigned one until the child is 5. My hv hasn't been in touch for months and I'm not getting dd weighed unless I have to. The next time will probably be when she has her MMR at 13 months.