Small Babies?

[Anonymous]

I was 5 lb at birth, my brother was 6 lb. Healthy and full-term.

[Anonymous]

My daughter was always itty bitty and her pediatrician always just shrugged and said that somebody had to be in the 15th percentile. She is consistently growing so we're not worried

[Anonymous]

Girl was full term, 5lb 12oz. Followed closely by the doctors throughout most of the pregnancy for IUGR. Still, at eight years old, somewhere around the first or second percentile in terms of her weight. Amazingly coordinated and athletic, just tiny. Have mostly given up trying to sneak in calories. (Tip: buttering her watermelon was a bad idea; turned her off that for months.)

My next child was also full term, 9lb 4oz at birth, and so long he couldn't wear anything smaller than six month clothing. That took a lot of adjustment.

[Anonymous]

OP, people stay dumb stuff. My first was 9 lbs and everyone who wasn't a recent mom kept saying how tiny he was.

[Anonymous]

Lol, be thankful OP, my first was 11.1 pounds, no GD. Your baby's birth weight is totally normal.

[Anonymous]

My niece was 6lbs 2 ounces when born. She was always the smallest kid in class. Her mom is 5'2" and dad 6'3". 5th Percentile in height and weight. In high school she grew to 5'8' and a year later after college was 5'9". She is still very thin at 110.

Some people just physically grow later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, people stay dumb stuff. My first was 9 lbs and everyone who wasn't a recent mom kept saying how tiny he was.

Yep, you forget. I have seen a newborn at church and thought how tiny they look and how my babies were surely never that tiny (I know better than to say this out loud, but in my head I am thinking it) and then someone asks how much the baby weighs and it turns out to be a couple pounds more than mine did. But my mind can’t wrap itself around the idea that my 100 lb teen was once 6 lb something. It just does not compute.

[Anonymous]

Of my 3 kids, the smallest at birth is on track to be the tallest as an adult. He’s my youngest and at every annual physical he’s been bigger than his brothers at the same age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am 5' 1 and had an 8 pound baby. She looked huge compared to the 6 pound babies but all are in the typical range. She ended up short like me.

Similar. My 5'1" mom and 5'7" Dad had me, an 8 pound baby. I ended up 5'1" just like my mom. Always the shortest kid in class, always the skinniest. At 59, I still am. A rock solid 115 pound woman who is 5'1". Gymnast and runner/track as a child, and a triathlete since college. (DH is 6'2".)


OP. your baby sounds normal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it matches parent's birth weights. I was 6lbs, 5oz and so was my DD exactly. I am petite and 5'0. DD is 99th percentile for height now and is average weight. DH is very tall (6'3), but not wide or husky.

DS was 9lbs, 14 oz. DH was 10lbs,2 oz. No one could have been more shocked than me about what a huge baby my second was (3.5 lbs more than my first! and I weighed the same!). Both were very healthy 41 week babies. DS is very skinny and tall now, not the huge baby that he was at birth.

TLDR birth weight doesn't mean much and it's genetic.

Same exact situation. My husband was 6.5lb at birth. I was almost 10lb. My first daughter was 7.1 and my second was 9.1. My family tends to make big babies and his tends to make small ones, and none of it meant much for their future growth when you look at cousins etc. My oldest does have a slimmer build than her sister but not by much. Same height percentage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My niece was 6lbs 2 ounces when born. She was always the smallest kid in class. Her mom is 5'2" and dad 6'3". 5th Percentile in height and weight. In high school she grew to 5'8' and a year later after college was 5'9". She is still very thin at 110.

Some people just physically grow later.

forgot to say -- and she was born at 42 weeks. She was still cooking just to be that small, lol.

[Anonymous]

Don’t worry at all! My side of the family has bigger babies. DH’s side has small ones. We had twins and one was born 7lbs and the other under 5lbs. Guess which one takes after DH’s side in every way? And when DH’s sister had kids they were both under 6 lbs despite being singletons. If your baby is eating and behaving normally then you just have a smallish baby. Nothing to worry about unless the doctor has concerns!

[Anonymous]

OP, my full term 6 lb baby was born In November. The docs have no idea why he didn’t weigh more. We just had his 9 month appointment and he weighs 21.5 lbs and is in the 79th percentile for weight.

Don’t worry about it!