How long did it take your baby to get back to birth weight?

Richardsmom_817 · November 2014

NFT.

CLLDLL · November 2014

He only lost 3oz. So roughly 4 or 5 days. I think our situation was pretty rare though. I was extremely lucky to have a really enthusiastic nurser coupled with the fact that he didn't lose much weight.

From what Ive read 2-2.5 weeks is pretty normal.

surpriseaddition · November 2014

I'm pretty sure my first two were back to birth weight right at 2 weeks, but it was so long ago I don't remember any stats. My current LO was:

Birth Weight: 9 lbs 6oz

Lowest Point: 8 lbs 5oz on Day 5

Back to Birth Weight: 3 weeks

My LO lost 12% body weight at her lowest, so I was supplementing with pumped BM after each feeding until she got back to birth weight. She was jaundice, and a CS so I think that added to her large weight loss initially. As long as she was gaining after bottoming out on Day 5, my doctor was fine with it.

BethanyAnn27 · November 2014

Birth weight: 7lbs 5oz

First Well Baby visit (2 days old): 6lbs 15oz

Second Well Baby visit (10 days old): 7lbs 5oz

our pediatrician by 2 weeks is what they look for and she was surprised that DD was back to weight by day 10.

heather52904 · November 2014

Birth: 9lbs 3oz
3 days old/ discharge: 8 lbs 3 oz
4 days old: 8 lbs 3 oz
1 week: 8 lbs 10 oz
2 weeks: 9 lbs 10 oz

So somewhere between 1-2 weeks

nolemomma14 · November 2014

Birthweight: 8lbs 10oz
Discharge weight(3 days old) 8lbs 1oz
1st well visit (5 days old) 8lbs 1oz
Two week visit: 9lbs 6oz

Same as pp. Somewhere between 1-2 weeks

kujess1 · November 2014

At her 2 week checkup she was 1 or 2 oz shy of her birth weight (7 lb 2 oz), so I think by a day or two later she reached it.

Aliki · November 2014

Birth weight: 9 lb 10 oz

Discharge weight (2 days old): 9 lb 3 oz

1st well visit (5 days old): 8 lb 3 oz. (diagnosed with infant dehydration; tongue-tie diagnosis and surgery done)

Follow-up (9 days old): 8 lb 12 oz

3-weeks old: 10 lbs 11 oz

So somewhere between 2 - 3 weeks.

opheliainwaders · November 2014

DD was early and had some significant troubles eating/weight loss, so this probably won't match your experience, but:

birth weight: 5lbs 11oz
lowest point: 4lbs 15oz
1 month: 6lbs
Not entirely sure when we hit her birth weight, but it was somewhere around week 3/4.

flcl · November 2014

DS was over a week late...

birth weight: 9lbs

8 days: 8lbs 13oz

3 weeks: 10lbs 13oz

So, somewhere between 2-3 weeks?

nunzchucks · November 2014

DS only lost 2% of his weight in the hospital and was over birth weight by our discharge appt 2 days later. DD was at birth weight by 2w.

Mewwwwws · November 2014

Oura took about 4-5 days.

[Deleted User] · November 2014

We struggled but are now gaining on the lower end of "normal" for a BF baby.

Birth: 6 lb 14 oz
Take Home: 6 lbs 9 oz
1 week: 6 lbs 8 oz
3 week and lowest: 6 lbs 4 oz
5 week weight check: 6 lbs 12 oz

So I think around week 5-6 is when we reached birth weight. I also had an epidural with apparently can lead to inflated birth weights (overheard at my weekly breastfeeding group) so once she was back over her take home weight I was relieved. Now she's about 16 weeks and just hit 9 lbs 14 oz last Thursday.

Abenedict2011 · November 2014

Born at 38.5 weeks at 8lb even.
Took her 5 weeks to get back to birthweight with ebf and supplementing a few oz of BM after each nursing session.

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