Baby weight gain

Would be interested to know the weight of your little ones. Mine is 20 weeks and is around 6.4- 6.5 kg (we weigh him at home). His birth weight was 3.3kgs. Is he underweight as I think he is following the 25th percentile?

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As long as he's following a trend it's all fine. If he started to drop percentiles then I'd contact the health visitor but if you think he's roughly following the line then there should be nothing to worry about.

yes he has always been following the 25th percentile since birth. I keep hearing that other babies are more chubbier and weighing much more so was getting worried

Not sure on kg, born at 5lb 3oz, weighed 14lb 1oz at 19 weeks xx

just did the conversion and it turns out my LO is 14lb 1.7oz

I think as long as he’s following a centile it’s fine, we were the 7th, now the 19th xx

our babies are very very similar birth and current weights, 3.28kg at birth and currently 6.8kg. i see my HV every month due to monitoring a birth injury and shes happy with her weight and not concerned x

As others have said, if you're following your centile lines you're fine. All babies can't be above average because then the average wouldn't be average! We have the opposite problem, born at 2.9kg, she's now 8.5kg at 23 weeks, she's stormed up the centiles and event though she's breastfed I worry she's overweight!

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