CAN YOU TELL ME THE WEIGHT OF YOUR 6 MONTHS OLD LO ? MINE IS WORRINGLY UNDERWEIGHT :-(

[Summerfruit]

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Summerfruit - Have you tried giving your baby finger foods, some babies just aren't interested in the puree/mashed food and sometimes prefer something they can do themselves. I work with health visitors (nice ones who definately wouldn't advise force feeding - can't believe what some mums are advised to do) Although I would definately go to the dietician just to put your mind at rest.

And you are not a failure at all please don't think that.

my lil man was 7lbs 9oz at birth hes now 10months and weighed 19lbs 5oz which i thought was small! doesnt help that all my friends babies r all huge!!! all babies grow n adapt differently! my ds is such a fussy eater and having such a bad time feeding him at the mo on the verge of crying sometimes will only have a few spoonfuls at times! but he seems to be putting on weight at a steady pace, but yet i still worry alot!

I didn't weigh mine. I figured if they looked healthy and got bigger then things were fine.
Can't believe your HV said to force feed her! That couldput her off food and get a psychological aversion. As for the weight loss, has she started moving more than normal, like trying to crawl or rolling. Burns up more energy. When babies start crawling/walking they often lose a couple of pounds.
Summerfruit, ditch the HV. They are not compulsory!

Hi Summer, babies come in all shapes and sizes. Mine isn't even on the centile chart - he's disappered off the top at a porking 22lb at 6 months - funny how no HV has told me to starve him (may only be a matter of time though......!)

my dd was 10lb 2oz at birth and weighed 15lb 4 at 6 months so i wouldn;t worry. dd is thriving now and even at 20 months shes still only 18lb.

as long as your dd feeds and is thriving, is happy and contended i wouldn;t worry too much. the health visitor just goes byt the centile charts, buty i think a smy dd proves sometimes they come out bigger and aren;t emant to stay big.

ds1 was 10lb 4 at birth and weighed 18lb at 6 months, and is now the skinniets lankiets thing there is, he eats for england too, form the moment he gets up, comes home form shcol hes alwasy eating but hes so active he burns it all off.

whereas ds2 was 10lb 4 oz at birth and is still a chunk, he wremained on the same centile for height and weight but has had a growth spurt and is in 7-8 clothes for the height now, but he still has a little rounded belly, hes 5.

Like others have said I wouldn't worry if your baby seems happy and alert. All babies are different some are naturally heavier and some lighter.

I have the opposite as DS2 who is 6mo too is at the top of the centile chart for weight and height. The HV annoy me so much every time I go there that I've not been to get him weighed for the last 2 months and am not going to until I take him for his 8 month check! He's happy and content so I'm not going to worry and if yours are anything like mine they talk a load of rot!

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summerfruit, my 25+ week old DD is just a smidge under 16lbs...in fact she probably is by now (she was weighed on Wed). That is just below the 50th centile so I don't understand how they are saying your DD is underweight?

at your HV saying to force feed her.

I would take her to see your GP for some re-assurance, and make a complaint about your HV while you are at it. IIRC you had real problems with her in the early days too.

Summerfruit, come over here for some more support.

my dd2 was far less then 16lbs at six months - she was about 11 or 12 lbs I think. underneath the growth chart percentiles anyway.

my dd is one week of six months and she weighs 11 lb on the 02 centil

Both my daughters, now 3 3/4 yrs and 6 months, weighed 5 lb 13 oz at birth, no.1 is now about 2 stone and no.2 about 14 lb. So both on the skinny side, but thriving.
My HV said that as long as babies are growing lengthwise, and in head circumference, feeding regularly, producing wet and dirty nappies, developing in line with their age, and generally healthy and alert, then it doesn't matter if they are a bit lean.
What happens in "failure to thrive" is that first they stop gaining fat, then they stop growing lengthwise, then the head doesn't grow enough, and the child becomes stunted in all respects. It doesn't sound as though that is happening to you, thankfully.
Some HVs refer to "faltering growth charts" which allow for more ups and downs than the conventional charts and can give reassurance. They overlay a transparent sheet with green growth curves over the growth chart and see if the dots are following a trend.
All the best

hi Summerfruit. just to reassure you, my dd was 10lb 7.5oz at birth and its now just over 15lb at 6 months. she started off above all the charts, and has dropped down to just under the 50th centile.

no-one batted an eyelid at her 4 month or 6 month checks - they took one look at her and saw she's happy, healthy and well-covered! i was actually told that before a baby is born their size is based on genetics and your body's environment - afterwards it's just genetics, and dd is finding her natural growth curve. i just grow big babies!

i'm based in Australia, so don't know if that makes any difference to the attitude, but i'd echo what everyone else has said - don't worry if everything else is going well.

That weight seems absolutely fine to me. I know HVs worry about babies dropping down the charts but they don't seem to take enough notice of family traits etc. I'm a bit skinny and so is my partner and our daughter just takes after us (about 18lb at 15 months). We have had loads of hassle about her weight from HVs but she is FINE - happy, healthy, alert, curious and just a bit skinny. Someone's got to be thin, right? Those centiles wouldn't be centiles unless some babies were in the bottom ranges.

Force feeding sounds utterly pointless. Why would you want to make your child feel like food was a trial instead of something to be enjoyed?

My son was 7lbs born and weighed 17lbs at 12 months old he enjoyed breastfeeding to 6months when i chose to stop and hated solids he went onto a cup but didnt really drink mch milk.
he lived on a little food and little milk and was the worry of the clinic but he was rarely ill and full of energy ,
he was a fussy eater til 8years old and now as a young adult is still slight but eats really well. don t worry too much.