I always get embarrassed when I tell people how old DS is because I invariably get a comment on his size... He weighs over 6.3kgs (his weight on the 11/01/10) and I'd guess he's about 63cm long... At 11wks old. Is that really that huge? I don't see a MCHN so I'm not sure how he stands on percentages for his age...
DD2 was 5.5kg at 4 weeks, so I don't think it's huge at all. And she wasn't huge IMO. Some babies are bigger boned, bigger built, others are more petite. I wouldn't worry about it hun.
I think he is above average for sure! but I don't think he is huge. My eldest was a smidge under 8kg at that age and about an inch longer and he was huge LOL. His growth will slow down by about 8-10mths old, but for now he is doing beautifully and you should be really proud I guess people comment if they are only familiar with babies that are smaller, or if they have an expectation in their mind that a baby his age *should* be smaller kwim?
Shades - it isn't anything to worry about. Babies grow at their own rate... but I have to add that my 5.5month old DD is currently 6.7kg (or was early Jan) and was 62cm long... now she was 6 weeks prem so should only be just over 4 months old
But just goes to show that there are variances in all bubbas!
My friend has a son who is 5 days younger than DD (but should be 8 weeks older - he was born 2 weeks 'overdue' and DD was 6 weeks early) and when we are together my friend now jokes and tells people her son is 10 months old after I say that DD is almost 6 months old... but compared to DD anyone is big LOL
I get that too! But Bella is 13 months old and taller than 2-2.5 yr olds! she is 80cms (well was at 12mth check). Bella has always been in 97th percentile for weight and head cerc - but there is no more chart left for her height! I guess that comes from her dad - DH is 6 foot 7!
M weighed 6kg at 8 months old..but then he was a very sick little man and had a lot of cacthing up to do...he now weighs....17kg and he recently turned 2
My second eldest as 8 kg at 4 months old...we called him Chubba chubba. Once he was walking he was off....he is a skinny as a rack with no flies on him.
What im trying to say is that I dont think, from looking at my own children, it really matters at that age. People change so much through their lives and so to babies if not more until preschool.
It really is so variable. Our Monster was off the charts for height (i.e. higher that the 100th percentile) when he was CJ's age and the paediatrician said he was perfectly normal. He is now 5.5 months old and weighs just shy of 10kgs. We also get the comments as he is often bigger than some much older kids. Our nurse said that as long as he is in proportion everything is fine.
Nah Jazzy gained about a kg a month until she was about 8 months, and then slowed down (yes I am totally serious! born at almost 4kg, at six months she weighed almost 10kg, 12 months she weighed 13.5kg. She now weighs 14kg at 18 months. She just gained all her weight in the first 8-12 months, and it's slowed down now.
He might be big on the growth charts, but the whole point of those is a guide and it is okay for him to fall where ever he falls on there. They only time it is concerning with those growth charts is if he is cutting across percentiles in a really short space of time (either dropping percentiles or gaining percentiles). Even then it is just a guide and you have to judge it on your own individual situation.
Really he can be whatever size he is genetically created to be.
Noooo! He's doing perfectly! If it helps to know, my little man is a couple of weeks younger than CJ and is 6.2kgs and 60.5cm, he's between the 75th - 90th percentile so CJ would be in that one too! They're both gorgeously healthy little men Wooo for us!! xx
Sounds like Jett and Jazz are gonna be very similar -
(I'm only putting this up so you can see how Jazzy was a massive heffalump but it DID slow down, not to compare babies lol)
Birth: 3.79kg and 51cm
1 month: 4.9kg, 55cm
2 month: 5.8kg, 60cm
4 months: 7.8kg, 63cm
5 months: 8.5kg, 70cm
6 months: 10.1kg, 72cm
10 months: 11.5kg, 78cm
12 months: 13.4kg, 80cm
18 months: 14kg, 86cm
Totally normal. I never really saw a MCHN regularly, and most of these were incidental GP visits and I asked for her to be weighed and measured because I was concerned. Only once my GP said something dumb (told her to put her on a diet at six months) which I ended up ignoring and he later took back when he saw her growth followed a good curve and ended up slowing down on its own. He did always say that bigger was better if they get sick, because they have some weight to lose before they become underweight (or something like that anyway). Not to say smaller is worse, just making myself feel better about growing a chubbaloomba.
Last edited by Indadhanu; January 30th, 2010 at 06:53 AM.
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Am I raising a little giant??
I guess people comment if they are only familiar with babies that are smaller, or if they have an expectation in their mind that a baby his age *should* be smaller kwim?
and he recently turned 2
Jazzy gained about a kg a month until she was about 8 months, and then slowed down (yes I am totally serious! born at almost 4kg, at six months she weighed almost 10kg, 12 months she weighed 13.5kg. She now weighs 14kg at 18 months. She just gained all her weight in the first 8-12 months, and it's slowed down now.
lol)
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