Help - anxious about baby’s weight
Hi friends! My sweet girl was born at 8 lbs 10 oz (doctors said I was measuring small lol FAIL). At her two month appt, she was a little off the chart for weight (almost 16 lbs) and in 95th for height. At just about 3 months she’s about 17 lbs, us weighing her holding her on our scale so not sure how accurate but probably close. Doctor wasn’t worried bc she’s proportional and said you want babes to grow and she shouldn’t really over feed when exclusively BF and she will slow down and even out. My older daughter was in the 90th percentiles for height and weight until like 6 months (when she hit 17 lbs lol) then started evening out and is now in the third percentile for weight sigh. Anyways I thought nothing of it was glad she was growing etc but I keep getting SO many comments. Someone recently made a joke that she looked like a linebacker and everyone keeps saying what a chunky baby. My in-laws told me to try a pacifier instead of feeding her and said they worry she’ll be an obese child and adult. all these comments are making me super anxious and I feel guilty for even caring when doctor said she’s healthy
And that’s all that matters. I’m also anxious as she started daycare and will be taking bottles now and my cousin in law told me she’ll probably get “even bigger” because “most babies overeat and they’ll keep forcing her to finish bottles”. Anyone else have a bigger babe and deal with rude comments? I am a rational grown ass adult and should be able to reason through and ignore this I know.
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