Chubby Bubbies

I remember you moaning about not showing yet Roksana...

Maya was 6.46kg at 4 mths. And only 7.12 at 9mths. Not a good grower. She went from the 95th at birth to the 3rd.

Plunket usually also go by Liz's nana's thing - double birth weight by 6 mths and triple it by 1 year. In saying that, Maya was not even double her birth weight at one year, and yet now she is a very healthy 16kg at 3.

The big thing is that she is not rapidly crossing percentiles. Plunket generally say that crossing 2 percentile lines (either going up or down) within a short time frame indicates that a baby is either gaining weight too quickly or not gaining enough.

Hannah sounds pretty healthy to me tho! What I wouldn't have given to have a chubby bubba when Maya was sick and losing weight at a rate of knots! Like the others have said, at least bigger babies have a bit of a reserve built up! My cousin's baby is a few weeks younger than Maya, and she was always a chub, then at 2 she got whooping cough and lost quite a bit of weight, but is still well within the normal range as she had a good store there to start with.

I get ppl asking me how old Xanda is and when I tell them they always reply with "oh he's a bonny boy isn't he." And then proceed to ask me how heavy he was at birth.

now i no my boy is a chuub but why oh why do people feel the need to tell me lol emma never thought of starngerling them but now it could be a option

Jack has the fattest little double chin its so cute but hes only in the 25% for weight and 75% for height so hes guna b long a skinny like his dad i was worried he wasn't getting enough milk cos of breastfeeding troubles but plunket were happy he is ok so as long as they arent worried i wudn't b worried