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OMG ..................Had to read this twice .....
My son was 8lb 4oz born and wasnt 16lb till he was a year and I know that coz he walked at 9 months and was so tiny

Dont worry if the baby is eating sleeping and doing what 5 month olds do DONT WORRY

16 lbs is a perfect weight. I'll bet the clinic was using the guidelines for boys, a common mistake.

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Rose

my 13 yr old was an 8lb baby and dident put on that much weight
he was and still is under weight for his age pluss his now only about 4ft 2
his 14 in june

when he was 3 and at nursary he was still in baby cloths age 1 and a half
he has always been fit and halthey in every way so i wouldent take any notest of what the heath visier says.
unless you feel any consern

my helth vister did say he would be lucky to reach 5ft2 by the time his fully grown and the tape mesher will be comeing out on his 21st birthday just to see if she was right.
and i think some how she will be LOL

i really hate charts,babys are all different and thank god they are,what has annoyed me more than anything is that they have really worried my daughter,shes a first time mum and she really had a horrible time bringing her daughter into the world,she got by without suffering even the baby blues and got down to the jobof looking after her daughter as if she had been doing it for yrs,everything running smoothly then they go and say her baby is underweight,16lbs for a 5month old isnt underweight,dont they like to see a first time mum coping without help?do they just like throwing a spanner in the works to upset the contentment>x

yes ive told my daughter not to worry,my granddaughter is a lovely happy contented baby that has slept through the night since she was 6days old,she eats well,and looks very healthy,my granddaughter was 55cms long at birth and still has very long legs,i just think its silly to worry a mother like that.x

No wonder we have all these overweight children if they have increased the expected weight gain for babies. Baby sounds fine as long as she is contented and healthy, tell your daughter not to worry.

I can understand why a baby's weight gain is a useful guide but it should, in my opinion, be just that - a guide. When my son was born (36 years ago now!!) he weighed just over 7lbs. but was extremely long - 22". He was hungry all the time and had doubled his birth weight by 3 months (hand on heart,he was only taking milk). The people at the baby clinic didn't believe me that he was only having milk as some weeks he would put on as much as 1lb. However, by the time he was 6 months old (and taking solids, his weight gain eased off and by the time he was 1 year it was triple his birth weight which was absolutely the ideal.

I think it is wise to keep a check but there are so many other factors that should be taken into account as some babies are longer,some more active,etc.etc. Not all babies are (nor should they be) replicas of one another and as long as they are otherwise healthy (with no gastric problems such as diarrhoea for example), the weight checks are just that, checks.

Hope this helps.

i really think 16lbs is good for a 5month old,shes been on solids for about 5wks now and eats well,she health and very happy,i dont think is right to worry a new mother like that.x

Is the baby well, eating and sleeping as expected?

They are all individuals and I can remember a concern about one of my daughters, who gained weight really slowly. As she was very contented and reached all the development milestones as expected, the heath visitor decided that the weight record card didn't give the full picture.

When said daughter had her son, we had the opposite problem, he was a real 'pudding' and gained weight rapidly even before she started him on solids. Never mind keeping to the lines of the weight-gain graph in his baby record book, he was in danger of going right off the top of the page, at one point.

I hope all is well with your grandchild.

Gwyn

I think baby is doing fine, when I had my boys we were told that they should double their birth weight by the time they were 6 months....don't fret

my daughters baby was born at the end of aug 2010 weighing 8lbs 4oz,my daughter took her to the clinic today to be weighed and she was told that her daughter was under weight she weighs 16lbs?when i had my children the norm was for the baby to double the birth weight in 6months,my granddaughter is only 5months old,is this right?x

MIA WEIGHT AT 10MTS IS GOOD,27LBS NOW ,AND SHES TALKING,(MA,MA DA,DA.NA NA,AND DOG)shes been crawlingfor the last two months,and will pull her self up onto the furniture,she waves bye,bye,plays beek a boo and feeds herself finger foods,if you throw a ball to her,she will throw it back and she sits and looks at books,turning the pages as she goes along,she eats a good healthy diet of fresh homemade foods,mummy cooks savory and nanny cooks puddings(stewed fresh fruit)mia loves snacking on bananas,raspberrys,and her favorite of all if munching on a big wedge of cucumber,she remains petite,but the way shes eating she wont stay petite for long.xx
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