All three of my fully breastfed infants tripled their birthweights before one year.  In fact the second tripled her 7 # 9 oz birthweight by seven months, of course she had the "benefit" of an older sister who at 2.5 years had continued to nurse through my pregnancy then quit one month after birth of dd2 with the announcement "too much numnum"

  Melinda
  
Liz Cammin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> One guideline about weight gain is for baby to double his birth weight between 4-6 mos of age, and triple it by a year. That keeps each baby on track for his own individual gene pool. 
>
> It's like the guideline for baby to regain birthweight by 2 wks, but most do so in much less time.
>
> The comparison is that calves double their birthweight in 47 days! That could be one reason that babies fed cow's milk based formula get fat. That idea is a hard sell when drinking cow's milk is so culturally acceptable as "normal".
>
> Phyllis
> 
I have also heard the tripling the birth weight by a year, but that
would mean that my 13 month old daughter should weigh almost 27
pounds! To me that seems like a lot! She is right at the 50th
percentile at 20 lb 8 oz, her birth weight was 8 lb 12 oz (I rounded it
up to 9 lb to make the math easier). In any case my son was 9 lb 8 oz
at birth and no way was he close to 29 pounds at a year. Maybe a
smaller baby would reach their tripled weight at a year - if a baby is 7
lb at birth, I could see 21 lb being doable at a year.

Maybe it's the way my kids grow, but I don't know a lot of breastfed
babies who have actually tripled by a year. Doubled by 6 months, no
problem, but most start to get more slender by a year, plus they have
either started walking or are trying very hard! 

Maybe the tripled by a year is more for formula fed babies?

Liz Cammin, RN, LLLL

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