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What is/was your babys weight at 8 weeks?

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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 15 October 2012 - 16:32

DS was a low birth weight so his current weight is only 9.5 pounds which puts him in a very low percentile.

What is/was your babys weight at 8 weeks?

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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 15 October 2012 - 21:31
Each baby is different. My first was chubby b/c he loved bf. But my other 2 would bf very little and thats it. Do you give ur baby a pacifier? I am thinking my second ds used paci so he wasnt interested in bf much, unless he is hungry. As to first ds my boobs were the pacifiers, hence the chubbiness i guess.
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EW EXPLORER
Latest post on 15 October 2012 - 20:20
to add....due to DS's very low birthweight he was pretty much force fed for the first 2 months of his life. By 3 months he looked like a little blob! but he was still little, just rotund!
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EW EXPLORER
Latest post on 15 October 2012 - 19:58
Only about 8.5 pounds at 2 months. Which was perfectly fine based on his birth weight of 4 pds 5 oz. He started way below the 1% (under the charts completely) and then caught up to it by 3 months and tracked along the 1-2% for about the first 2 years of his life. He's now 7 and on the 10th percentile. As kiwispiers said: it's not important what the actual weight is, but that they are growing to a pattern. Ie. it's can a red flag if a child goes from the 95% to the 5% over a relatively short time. But tracking along the 5% is perfectly fine.
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EW EXPERT
Latest post on 15 October 2012 - 17:09
Don't get hung up on your baby's actual percentile, its not the number that matters its the pattern of growth, if your baby is following the curve then they are growing well whether they are 5th percentile or 95th.
 
 

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