9th percentile weight

My lactation nurse told me that breastfed babies don’t always gain as quickly as formula fed babies. My girl is also tiny but absolutely thriving in every category other than rapid weight gain. We are also keeping a close eye with doctors, she is steadily gaining but just on the smaller side. All babies are so different but it’s good youre keeping up with your medical team. They told us to fortify my milk with formula but my girl won’t take a bottle. They may have you try that at some point but hang in there and know youre not alone!

I had the same thing happen with my baby when she was 4 weeks old. She is exclusively breastfed as well the only thing I changed was once she was around 3/4 of the way through feeding I’d swap her to the other breast so that she got the fattier milk that comes in the first few gulps. She’s 7 weeks now and is so chubby and I have no weight concerns anymore. I wouldn’t worry too much as long as your baby is happy and fed she’ll put the weight on eventually.

Thanks ladies for the reassurance.

My sons 5 months always been between 9th and 25th breast fed too, the weight charts are for babies on formula as they gain a lot faster than breastfeed babies. Then when there is an issue there’s panic! I believe some trusts have been trying to get separate charts 📈
But you ain’t doing anything wrong