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?

[*LovemyKids*]

I do really like my Dr other then his comments!!! I will not be taking him back to this Dr i will just take him to the Clinic for checkups and immunisations and if they think i should see a dr i will find a baby friendly Dr I think!!! Thank you everyone you make me feel better!!! XXOO

[Michelle71]

Did your GP ask what you were feeding him?? Did he discuss your form of infant nourishment?? Only because he / she may not automatically assume BF and think FF and there are some babies who are overfed. There is also a parenting book that suggests top ups after feeding. Some people (relatives of mine ) started their babies on solids at 2 months / 10 weeks. There are a number of potential reasons for that statement and without further clarification from the GP they do sound inappropriate. With further information they may have had a valid point they were trying to convey (not very well!!) which may be relevant for some parents.

If you really like your doctor otherwise then use this relationship to adequately discuss what they mean by the comment so there can be no misunderstanding or blanket comment that doesn't apply to you / your situation. His weight is not an issue if he is consistent on centiles. Someone has to be at the top and someone has to be at the bottom (we just happen to be at the bottom and get comments for the opposite reason ) and when he starts to move more they all even out. In my MG there were a wide range of sizes but by about 7 months they were all around the same size and now at 3 they are all average sized little people - regardless of their beginning.

[*EJ*]

My DS1 wasn't overly big born (7lb 10oz) but once he started feeding (bfing) he started to become a bit of a big boy. I would get the comments from the strangers in the street like, 'How old is he?' I'd tell them then i'd get "Oh he's a big boy isn't he!?'. To me he wasn't. Yes he gained weight beautifuly and i'm just proud of us for that, of me for producing the milk, of him for drinking it so well and of my milk for being so good. I too was told by my MCHN that you can't overfeed a breastfed baby so i never attempted to change anything.

It all evened out, he's now almost 4 and just looks like a healthy little boy, not too big not too small

If you're not concerned don't change a thing

[STARRYSKY]

I was going to say something along the lines of what Michelle said

My DS had HUUUUUGE weight gains in his first few months and I had various MW's/ health nurses comment and all said "if you were FF I'd be telling you to reduce his feeds, but seeing as he is BF, its no problem"

Yay!! for super boobies!

[Ozziehoffy]

My friend's little boy put on weight really fast and was really chubby with rolls (which are soooo adorable) and he was fully BF also.... just fab milk I reckon. On the flipside, at least you don't have doubts in your mind about if you're producing enough etc etc etc. I love rolls on babies, they are just way too cute. Most bubs will lose it and slow down and slim down as they get older... my friend's little boy is almost 4 now and slimmed heaps! He's tall but so is his dad. His dad is also very solidly built so there were some genetics. I say he's all perfect your little man

[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

[~ 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.