sick of hearing "my baby is bigger than yours/she's so small" !!

[justonesherryformedicinalpurpo]

My daughter weighed 6lb 8oz at birth and was born 4 days over due date.

she's now 9 months and weighs just over 17lbs so she's put on a steady 1lb+ a month.

she is ebb and I know this can contribute to some bf babies being more slender than plump but my partner was small growing up and I was so skinng (until I had my first serious bf at 16!).

She is developing very well, cruising sofas, crawling and babbling away etc. Always been very alert and fidgety. I basically have no concerns whatsoever!

But I am SO fed of people guessing her age. Someone guessed 2ms the other day! Bloody moron!

I always here "oh my baby is younger but huge compares to yours" and "wow she's so tiny, by baby weights X amount".

How do I respond. I just say wow or woah. I feel like they are very naive and also comparing as if their baby is better than mine. Which I know is so ridiculous and no one means any offense but it still irritates me.

some lady said to me yesterday at a baby group "wow she's so clever!" to which I responded with "well she's 9 months..." surprise surprise I'm greeted with "oh... she's so small".

Help me not take their comments defensively as I know they mean nothing by it!

Any other mamas with small babies?

I think a lot of my sensitivity about the comments stemmed from my mum suggesting I give her formula as she'll put on more weight and ringing me up to tell me how much I weighed at that age. This was because she was anxious because once my HV suggested I come back every 2 weeks to check weight because after 3m (like lots of ebf babies) her weight dropped on the chart. I had no concern but my mother's comments worried me for a bit.

I ended up politely complaining about HV and since then she asks to only see me each month rather than 2w (not that I ever did!).

Daughter now eats 3 good meals a day plus a couple of snacks, good amount of bf's throughout the day and a couple at night (help me!) and is still my perfectly petite flower.

shocking to hear of some of the comments some of you have received!

All of our babies are absolutely perfect!

My lo is 4 month and 17.11 lbs, hes breastfed and i get the other end of the spectrum, health visitor even said that he was overfed ( " well apparently you cant overfeed breastfed babies but i think yours is")! Bloody moron. Has to be the most irritating thing about parenthood is the random comments and 'advice'. Unless a doctor has said to me you should worry about x y z then im not going to worry!

Spill a particularly insensitive HV once told me if DS kept putting on weight the way he was (2lb a month pre-weaning) that I'd have to take him to the doctor to check he didn't have a growth disorder. I was aghast! Added another item to my list of anxieties related to his weight.
At 10.5m he's finally plateaued and now that he's crawling and cruising he's slimming down. He's also 98th for length so he was never going to be petite.

Peace- i love the way some people like to say stuff like that for no reason (why say that unless you need to book them in as you are actually really concerned) just adds to stress! My lo is 91st for weight and i think around 60th for length

My daughter weighed 5lb 6oz at birth, full term - on the 0.4th centile for both height and weight. She was diddy. I got the same all the time 'she's so tiny', 'she's so advanced' (because she was small, they assumed she was younger than she was)

She is now 2 and a half and is on 91st centile for height and weight - she has well and truly ourgrown her growth curves. All I get now is 'she's tall isnt she? She's so heavy' - can't win! People always like to pass comment!

I've started getting this more and more recently. My daughter is 5 months old, born 6lb 7oz's, and tracking the 9th centile. She is smaller than the vast majority of babies her age.

It doesn't really bother me when people comment, they don't mean anything by it.