Average baby size - length & height

[Mrbumpoid]

Please can someone help bc my baby has never been measured for length, I know her weight but they never wrote anything in her red book or kept record - long story - rubbish health visitors and midwives. I also can't find anything online 😫

Where is she on the percentile:

1. age 12 weeks
2. weight 16lbs
3. height 65cm

I don’t think they measure length as standard any more. However there is a chart for it in your red book, you should be able to plot her height against her age, and work out the centile yourself.

Measuring a baby’s length isn’t actually easy to do accurately, we had our daughter measured at a medical apt and they have a little thing they lie on and stretch their legs out (which little babies hate). We’ve tried with a tape measure at home and got a very different reading!! I wouldn’t worry too much about her height/length.

www.rcpch.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Girls_0-4_years_growth_chart.pd
I think that is the chart if you can’t find it in the red book.

www.childgrowthcalculator.com/#grafica_longitud

I spent weeks worrying about my second baby's small skull circumference (below 5th percentile), which they thoughtfully plotted on a graph of averages for the scan date. That was twenty years ago, and now she's a wonderful, happy young woman at medical school.

Don't worry too much, it won't change anything anyway. You can only do what you can: get good nutrition, don't overdo physical labour, get enough sleep, and attempt to avoid stress, though that is easier said than done!

Hi thanks, I will try those links 😃 Can I just add I’m not worried in the slightest- just intrigued!