Seriously? 0% for weight!? :-/

lanea8712

Dr visit for 6m yesterday and A is 2' 2.5" (24.47%) and 14 lbs 3 oz (0.00%)!!!!!! ?

sigh.

A loves "real" food, baby food is ok, but I'm LUCKKKYY if I can make him eat half a jar, or drink 4.5oz. That's the most he's ever been willing to drink. A couple times hes went to 5-6 oz but so rare. Not even in growth spurts.

He acts like he hates formula and always has, dr even had me flavoring it and he's still not really liking it.

He was 7lbs at birth, he has a lil chunky to his legs, but mostly long n lean.  He's healthy but little.

I just can't believe he's zero%! I wish he'd eat a lil more/ better..

Sorry lil venting there 

143BabyCakes

Try not to let that percentile bother you. My pedi always tells me that as long as she has no concerns the rest is just a number.

QuintonsMummah

DS1 was at 0% for quite a while and even now hasn't made it out of the 10% mark for weight. Don't worry about it TOO much, you'll drive yourself crazy comparing your baby to others.

lanea8712

He sees two drs at his office, one says " feed him anything, make pb formula shakes n feed him if he will take it. I wanna c weight gain" the other says " he's small but staying on track of the small line."  Drives me a little batty. I feel like he's ok but little.

thank you for encouragement, it is just a number, he's healthy that's what matters. Some ppl make me feel like he's going to poooof away from being little!!! Ugh. 

Jenner37

Also most of the research I have read and my pedi says that if they double their weight by 6 months, they are doing great and it sounds like your LO has done that. 

atrinh11

My LO is pretty small too, but he is chunky. I feel weird about it sometimes, especially because all of the other babies we know are HUGE for their age. It makes him seem even smaller. We know a baby born just 5 days after him that was over 21lbs at his 6 mo visit. I thought that was just crazy. Other friends of ours have a 12 mo old who is off the charts tall for height. He is just the little guy, but we have decided we like it that way. He is hitting all of the normal developmental milestones, so we don't worry. At his 6 mo visit, they didn't even give us his exact percentiles, I think so we wouldn't get worked up over them. We looked it up at home, he is about 10th percentile for weight.

It is hard when you get comments about how small they are. Just yesterday I met the mom of a 5 month old baby at LO's daycare. I told her my LO was 7 months old and she made a comment that her baby was just as big as mine, even though he was 2 months younger. I just said, yeah he's pretty small for his age... Annoying though. Just try not to let it get to you.

SurpriseAt39

lanea8712:

Dr visit for 6m yesterday and A is 2' 2.5" (24.47%) and 14 lbs 3 oz (0.00%)!!!!!! ?

sigh.

A loves "real" food, baby food is ok, but I'm LUCKKKYY if I can make him eat half a jar, or drink 4.5oz. That's the most he's ever been willing to drink. A couple times hes went to 5-6 oz but so rare. Not even in growth spurts.

He acts like he hates formula and always has, dr even had me flavoring it and he's still not really liking it.

He was 7lbs at birth, he has a lil chunky to his legs, but mostly long n lean.  He's healthy but little.

I just can't believe he's zero%! I wish he'd eat a lil more/ better..

Sorry lil venting there 

I don't have exact numbers since N's 6 month appointment is next Wednesday, but I've measured him at about 27" and roughly 14 lbs. he was 21" and 7 lbs at birth. He is happy, outgoing. He sits unaided, almost crawls, pulls to standing, sleeps really well (at night), babbles, loves baths, grabs toys, eats what we eat, is BF, etc. he is on track and happy. I'm not concerned that he's a lightweight. DD was as well. 

Dont be worried unless you see other issues with LO.  

lanea8712

He said to add a little bit of peanut butter to his formula bottle to flavor it to see if he would eat better. I was a little surprised, but we had already tried him on PB so I tried it. He didn't think much of it. Lol. I guess since its high in fat but not sugars is why he recommended it. 

My LO meets all his goals, trying to crawl, can sit up for a lil bit by himself, grabs anything and everything, lifts head when laid down, rolls like crazy, holds bottle sometimes by self etc..

I took him to the dr about three weeks ago to check his ears and he was 1% weight, then now 0%. At the last appointment is when the dr "H" told me to try and help him gain weight. We had Dr "K" at our last appointment and he showed me the charts he's on the last line for weight but always has been. Always going up though, right on the line. So he didn't mention anything about making him gain really.

I heard about the double the weight by 6M triple by 1 yr too. I figured he was ok butt the  comments really get to me sometimes. It made me wonder why dr H was so "worried" about him too. 

 

tngrl3

Try not to worry about it too much. Someone has to be at the bottom or there wouldn't be a 95%! At 6.5 months N was only 13 lbs and 23.5 inches (He was a preemie). He doesn't even come close to making the chart. But he is growing and developing and happy. I nurse him on demand and am doing BLW. He will only take 3-3.5 ounces of BM in a bottle every 3 hours while I am at work. If your little one is happy and sleeps well, he must be getting enough to eat. 

lanea8712

Thank you, A wasn't a preemie but I'm glad others are in the boat with me so to speak. I figured just about everyone's baby was eating way more than 4.5 oz every 3 hrs. Lately he's been doing 5-6 before bed, which makes me very happy! 

My nephew was the total opposite of A so I'm always hearing how small he is. They have started to see its just how he is, and its not so often I hear "we need to fatten u up buddy!" I love my family though, I'm glad they care.