When did your baby double their birth weight?

[Wallace]

Pointless thread I know, but satisfy my curiosity. Ds doubled his weight by seven weeks old, I'm sure this must be some sort of a record...can anyone beat this?

Ds:
birthweight: 6lb 11oz
weight at 7 weeks: 13lb 13oz

Dd by contrast:
birthweight: 7lb 10oz
8 months : 15lb 3oz

obviously nobody can beat it so you're all staying quiet

I can't beat you, but is interesting that I have the same pattern

DD - born 7.5lb- doubled by 21 weeks or so

DS - born 7lb, 14 oz. Doubled by 12 weeks...

That's interesting...do girls usually grow more slowly I wonder?

buggered if I know

Ds was about 15 months before he doubled his, but he was big baby and is skinny now!

ds 9lb 1oz at birth
8mths 18lb

DD

Birth weight: 6lb 15oz
8 weeks: 10lb 14oz
18 weeks: 14lb 5oz

7 weeks is very quick; you must be feeding him some powerful stuff

still unbeaten

about 14 weeks DS doubled his birth weight but he only had to add 5 1/2 pounds to do that

All my own work - can you tell I'm proud

He is six now, and a big strong lad (and that is not a euphemism for fat)

My thoery is he stayed small inside me because I am quite small, and then grew to his natural weight one he was born.

anybody else?

I don't know, I can never remember the answer to these questions - eek!

I can only remember ds' because it was so remarkable - and just looked in red book for exact weights

Ds was 4lb 3oz at birth, after a few feeding gliches doubled at about 12 weeks!

Cant beat you!

Don't get my ds weighed or take him to clinic but at his 6 week check he was 12lb 2oz (birth weight was 8lb 10oz). I thought that was pretty impressive given he is exclusively bf. He is a right little chunk now at 16 weeks - don't do weigh-ins though!

Absolutely no idea.

My dds both doubled their weights by 14 weeks. DD1 was born on the 25th percentile and reached the 91st percentile at 18 weeks!

100 per cent breastfed.

Do breastfed babies gain weight more quickly in hte early months?

Ds also never lost any weight after he was born

DS1 - 7lb 3oz at birth
14lb 4oz at 14 weeks (BF)

DS2 - 7lb 11oz at birth
15lb 6oz at also at 14 weeks (bottlefed)

BUT - from birth to 4 weeks he went from 7lb 11oz up to 10lb 12oz (so 3lb in 4 weeks )

Bf babies tend to gain weight slower in the early weeks.