Anyone else’s baby track on the 0.4th percentile?

Are you and your partner big people?
Genetics do also play a part and should be considered?
Has he had his length checked in a while?
as long as he isn’t losing weight then there won’t be a concern from medical tbh. If he started trailing off then it would be considered faltering growth.
Sounds like your child eats a lot and is enjoying it so just continue to follow their lead.
Your little one maybe a candidate for introducing solids earlier with medical guidance possibly or you may see when solids are introduced he picks up.

ordered some right now! I didn’t realise I could get probiotics from birth, I was told they had to be bigger and it wouldn’t work. Honestly, I don’t think the GP knew his arse from his elbow though ☺️ thanks!

no, I’m 5ft 9 and my husband is 6ft but he was such a skinny kid he was given special drinks to fatten up. His great granddad was a jockey!

I’ve told the doctors this but I keep getting the guilt trip and they just don’t listen to the generic talk. I’ve been asked to keep a feeding diary, I track everything including what I pump extra but it’s like they don’t believe me.

He’s such a happy baby, smiling, trying to roll, starting to gurgle. He sleeps well, including 6+ hours straight. He eats well, he’s just teeny.

I think the constant comments that he’s small, the doctor saying “I see babies his age pounding the weight on”, “are you giving him all you’ve got?” and constant appointments and referrals for reweigh are not constructive and getting me a bit down. I literally went to the supermarket last night and got “he’s 3 months?! He looks newborn, mummy”… yes I know, thanks 🤦🏼‍♀️

My little boy is roughly on the 0.4th percentile. The H.V wanted me to book a GP appointment for him as he'd dropped a couple percentiles, but my GP said he wasn't too concerned and was happy to wait until his 8 week appointment. We then had an appointment with the Infant Breast Feeding team, she asked what my partners build is, and said she wasn't surprised or concerned about baby's growth as me and my partner are both on the small side. He was born 6lbs 13oz, and was 8lbs 1oz at 6+3 weeks.
All the health practitioners seem to have different opinions, which is rather annoying and hard to work with 😅x

yeah I was a 6lb 6 baby myself and my husband was only 7lb too. My son was 7lb 7 but dropped to 6lb 9, now he’s 9lb 7 at 12 weeks.

Glad to hear your little boy is doing well xx

It’s very frustrating when professionals compare out loud and have said expectations and place them on your baby.
Ignore them. You are nourishing him the right way!

My son has tracked between 0.4 to 1st centile since birth. He’s just turned 6 years old and is still a little skinny guy, but he’s happy and healthy and all the rest of it! Some kids are just built tiny. And tbh it saves on clothes money…

I was always told that as long as the baby stays roughly along that same line, there’s not much to worry about. Your baby is small but still gaining weight which is great.
It might just take puberty before he starts to resemble you and your husband height wise.

My husband is shorter than me and smaller than me. I’m also tall but very skinny and we were very small babies. We didn’t gain lots of weight until we were toddlers. Do not let them bully you. They try to put every single child into a box, but every single child is different. They don’t all follow the same curves. Make sure that your baby is happy if they are wet change them so they are dry if they are hungry feed them if they need a cuddle, give them a cuddle. That’s it. As long as your baby is happy and his needs are met. It doesn’t matter how fast or slow. His weight is gaining as long as he’s not rapidly losing weight.

Also, I have had four children. None of them were larger than 6 lbs. 12 oz.. They were all 21 inches long. And every single one of them were in the lowest percentile because my husband and I are very small people. But they will continually bully you and make you think you’re doing things wrong when you’re not. Trust your instincts you know whether or not your baby is doing OK. Trust yourself.

My little boy was. He wasnt on centile chart at all for a bit, then 0.2nd centile, then 0.4th until maybe 8 months. The doctors think he had CMPA so he started gaining weight a bit once we switched to prescription dairy-free formula. What really helped though was weaning on to solids at 5 months. He started really gaining then and went on to 9th centile around 8/9 months and has been there ever since (he just turned 3). He’s still tiny but super healthy and met all his milestones early so far x

How is he doing now, I'm going through the same thing and am worried. Did your son go up the percentile xx

My daughter is 8 month old and is only 6.5kg, she's a very fussy eater and only eats on average 1 meal a day. Xx