27% for weight at 9 month check up

[Audreysmama515]

She was 15lbs 14oz at 6 months and she's only gained a little over 1lb in 3 months.  She has grown 3" in height though and she is very active.  She doesn't really eat solids, we try about once or twice a day but she is not really into them, I haven't really been that worried though because I have seen that a lot of other babies are the same.  I guess I am not really that worried because I know she nurses a lot, I just hate telling people and have them look at me like I am starving my kid or something.

 Anyways any advice on getting her to gain a little weight or help with the solids would be great, thanks!

[larissalarie]

Just nurse as often as you can & she will and give it time for the solids.
As far as others, just don't tell them! Problem solved. I doubt they remember her 6 month weight to compare it to her 9 month weight if you don't remind them :-)

[gdiamante]

Quoting Audreysmama515:

She was 15lbs 14oz at 6 months and she's only gained a little over 1lb in 3 months.  She has grown 3" in height though and she is very active.  

The second sentence carries three times the weight of the first one. She did grow in height and she's very active.

Never look at percentiles. Never never. Not till they measure her aademic achievement, because then the percentiles mean something.

She doesn't really eat solids, we try about once or twice a day but she is not really into them, I haven't really been that worried though because I have seen that a lot of other babies are the same.

Yep. Normal.

 I guess I am not really that worried because I know she nurses a lot, I just hate telling people and have them look at me like I am starving my kid or something.

"People" go on a need to know basis. And unless they live with you, they need to know NOTHING.

 Anyways any advice on getting her to gain a little weight or help with the solids would be great, thanks!

If she was not active, there would be something to worry about. But since she is... carry on. You're doing fine. All a percentile chart tells you is how your baby compares to other babies; no earthly use. Comparison is the road to madness and should be avoided.

How is she compared to her birth weight? THAT means something. Standing on a percentile chart means nothing.

[sreichelt26]

Don't worry - she DID grow, it was in height. The weight she burned off by being active. I have a non digital scale at home, so I don't get exact weights, but dd has hovered around the 20lb mark for over two months, and she used to gain 3 lbs every two months. But she grew in length and is super active.

Mine hardly eats solids too. She's 98% breastfed

[mostlymaydays]

I agree! Many babies slow weight gain when they start solids so don't expect that to be a magic bullet (look how few calories are in a jar of baby food.) just keep nursing. The 27th percentile is no indication of health, it just means that in a sample of 100 babies (and don't get me started on the sample they used) that your dd is smaller than 73% of the babies, and larger than 26%. Humans come in all sizes.

Quoting larissalarie:

Just nurse as often as you can & she will and give it time for the solids.

As far as others, just don't tell them! Problem solved. I doubt they remember her 6 month weight to compare it to her 9 month weight if you don't remind them :-)

[JasonsMom2007]

Both of my kids fell off of the chart right around then.

[PEEK05]

Mine is starting to. He is in the 2% now. He used to be about the 15% but he has gained less than a pound in three months (6-9 months). I'm not worried. He nurses on demand. He barely touches solids but has great diapers so I know my supply is great and since he nurses on demand, I'm not worried at all.

I read that at this age, they start to only gain about 0.9 oz/week, which is less than 4 OUNCES a month! Knowing that makes me feel even more confident that my little guy is just fine.

OP, I wouldn't worry about it unless she stops meeting milestones, becomes sickly or fussy all the time, actually loses weight, drop in diapers, or anything else that would indicate a possible problem.

Quoting JasonsMom2007:

Both of my kids fell off of the chart right around then.

[mostlymaydays]

My girls did, too. I know they can't technically be below zero, bc they use the phrase under the 2nd percentile, but the little dot they draw is below the chart. BUT my girls grow along a nice little curve of their own, just below eveyone else. I had a pediatric endocrinologist tell me that my kids didn't come into their own metabolism until they were about six months and any bulk they had before was perhaps a false head start they were never going to be able to keep up.

Quoting PEEK05:

Mine is starting to. He is in the 2% now. He used to be about the 15% but he has gained less than a pound in three months (6-9 months). I'm not worried. He nurses on demand. He barely touches solids but has great diapers so I know my supply is great and since he nurses on demand, I'm not worried at all.

I read that at this age, they start to only gain about 0.9 oz/week, which is less than 4 OUNCES a month! Knowing that makes me feel even more confident that my little guy is just fine.

OP, I wouldn't worry about it unless she stops meeting milestones, becomes sickly or fussy all the time, actually loses weight, drop in diapers, or anything else that would indicate a possible problem.

Quoting JasonsMom2007:

Both of my kids fell off of the chart right around then.

[Audreysmama515]

Thanks everybody, needed the support.  She was only 6.6 when she was born and had gained weight so good up to now.  Just seems like most the people I know with babies ff and have huge babies ya know..

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[slvrbtrfly]

My son is not even on the chart. As long as she is following her own growth curve, i wouldn't worry too much

[mostlymaydays]

Sometimes we needlessly obsess over weight,the percentiles, the "double by six months". They can be nice general guidelines but we get so desperate to compare and reassure ourselves tht we're doing well. My one friend had a baby who was 12 lbs at birth and she was so worried because he hadn't doubled his weight at 6 months. The doctor told her he had a tremendous head start and wouldn't forever grow at that rate, thank goodness! Your baby was 6.6 and has more than doubled. That takes some work, to completely double your entire body weight! Almost all babies slow their growth after the first six months. Once they become mobile they're burning more calories for energy and have less left over to store as fat, so they appear to stall.