When is a baby too big???

[*LovemyKids*]

I have not been in here for awhile now and i feel bad. BUT I just weighed my 4 month old son today and he weighs 9.2 kg I was shocked as yes he is a BIG baby but i do not look at him and think wow you are so fat!!!! He is chubby and has thighs for days BUT i don't look at him and see a problem. I just wanted to ask if anyone knows if there is ever a time when a baby is too big?
He was 9pd4oz born so he was not a small baby to begin with. When i took him to my STUPID GP at 2 months i think he said oh he is getting a big boy just watch how much you feed him!!!! I WAS SHOCKED!!!
He is fully BF and is not having solids or anything, he is rolling and almost has his second tooth!!!
I think i just need some reassurance before i go back to the Dreaded GP for his 4 month old needles!!!!!!
I just checked my first son's book as he was also a chubby bubby and he was 8.1kg at four months!!!!! So Jack is by far a bigger baby!!!

Thanks

[Just Me]

I wouldn't stress about it - babies can't have 'too much' breastmilk (at least I don't think they can). I think that doctors and medical people stress too much about 'big' babies and 'small' babies. I don't get why we have to label them and they can't just be what they are. There are lots of other factors they can look at to figure out whether babies are not doing well medically and weight should only be a small part of that.

I thought the point of those growth charts too was not to compare babies to other babies, but more to make sure that your baby is steadily gaining weight so that if your baby doesn't you have reason to be concerned.

Your baby sounds fine to me. I don't think 9.2kg is that big either.

If you are worried about your GP, find someone less opinionated. If your GP is obsessing about his weight and saying to feed him less, and not looking at any other health indicators, I would take this a sign of his ignorance (I am having my 4th baby and I have discovered most GPs don't know a whole lot about pregnancy, babies & toddlers besides what they download off google while I am sitting there with them - which I could do myself).

Try not to stress. As long as everything else is okay healthwise with your bub, he sounds like he is doing great and thriving on breast milk!

[HotI]

Your first son was above 90th percentile for weight (according to my Blue Book), and your second son is prob 97th percentile. Maybe you have supercharged breast milk? Go Boobies! I wouldn't restrict his feeding at all. How is your first son now? Many babies just carry their weight until they start walking.

[Beach Mama]

We were just talking about this at MG today and one of the girls little boy was HUGE when he was little, Im talking whoa mama! and now he is a lean and fairly tall 3.5yr old! Friends of ours 12mth old was 15kgs! If he is fully b'fed I would keep on as you are going, and yay for boobies!! Great job hun and don't listen to what anyone says, he sounds like a perfectly normal healthy boy!

[*LovemyKids*]

Thanks four your responses, my eldest son is now accoding to "the chart" on the 50 percentile exact!!!!! he is 7 and 22.2kg!!!!!!

[krystals]

He's a BEEYOOTIFOOL bubba, chubby and perfect- you have wonder-boobies!!!!

[ezymay]

Sounds like super booby milk to me!! Well done

[onthefly]

What are you going to do, starve him? It's just the way he is - silly doctor!
Can you go somewhere else rather than that GP?

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Thanks four your responses, my eldest son is now accoding to "the chart" on the 50 percentile exact!!!!! he is 7 and 22.2kg!!!!!!

Hun it sounds like you just grow some beautiful healthy bubba's... FWIW my 'little' brother is 9 and weighs 40kg, he's not fat he's quite tall for his age and active he (like the rest of my family) just have a big build.. don't forget muscle weighs more than fat
My friends little boy was 11lb at birth and at his 4mth check up he was 8.4kg

[sloane]

he sounds like a gorgeous little man! fwiw, my DS had massive weight gains early on & was fully BF. the nurse kept asking me if i was sure he was BF (in a nice way) then he started crawling & then walking & he's dropped from the 97th percentile down quite a lot. now i figure he was just stockpiling for being an active toddler!

[studymum]

Babies come in all shapes and sizes, hence a percentile graph, of course some babies are going to be on one end of the scale and some on the other. If he is on the 90th all it means is there is only about 10% of babies that are bigger than him, not that he is overweight or too big.

Watch how much you feed him, pfftttt, for starters you can't tell, and obviously this gp has never tried telling a baby, 'sorry hunny, you can't eat this time cause you are putting on a bit to much weight'. Its not possible to cut down a babies feeds, they will have what they require to be happy.

Best thing to do with some gp, is not your head and go uh hmmm, then do as you know best.

[Loula]

He is a beautiful boobie baby!

FWIW a friend told me that there is another chart for bf babies. And on this you can see the range is much broader.

As Michelle says we can't all have babies the same ....... How boring


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[CrazyLady]

I wouldn't really pay attention to the big/small comments. DD was super tiny and barely made the "chart" at her 8 month check but now she is 80th percentile. Babies and even children develop at their own rate. As long as ytou aren't feeding him junk and he isn't a rolling ball of lard then I see no worries. It sounds like his development is going well so it's not as if he's that big that he can't roll or whatever...

HTH

ETA: My nephew was 8.6kg at 4 months and all the MCHN said was "what a gorgeous, chubby boy". Your dr is a moron