Small one year old

[SassyPants87]

DS is turning 1 in a couple of weeks and I am always worrying about his weight! He’s a tiny little thing and he puts on weight painfully slow. He’s been between 4th and 9 percentile for the majority of the year. He doesn’t have the best appetite so I know lack of food/milk consumed mixed with him crawling around won’t really allow him to put on huge amounts of weight. He’s also still in 6-9 month clothes with room to grow.
I guess I’m just looking for reassurance from others who have been the same and their kids have eventually ‘caught up’.
my elder DD was a chunky little thing when she was his age so I know I’m also just comparing when I shouldn’t.

Mine was prem so was 2-3 sizes smaller than his age in clothes as a one year old. When he started school he was in age 2 clothing at 5. Through school, even at secondary, the school trs were 1-2 sizes smaller waist wise. At the end of Yr 9 he was 5 ft 9 having slowly caught up. Yr 10 he shot up tall, now a 6ft sixth former having been a tiny 3lb/1.5 kilo baby.

So, it can be done. They get to where they are meant to. However, I’m not saying yours will be 6ft tall. My friend’s son was always quite small and is 5ft 9 age 18.

My DS sounds very similar to your DS. He's now nearly 4 and just moving out of 18-24 month clothing in t shirts but not in trousers. He also has dinky feet.

No concerns at all from health professions and he eats fine but someone has to be the smallest statistically and I think that where he happens to sit.

I would prepare yourself for endless comments on the matter though, it gets very tiresome very quickly.