I know  that breastfed babies do often gain rapidly in the first 3  months 
then  slow down but I haven't had a client whose term baby  doubled his birth 
 
weight by 2 months.



Ok...another  incidental story...One mom in my LLL group has a  baby boy who 
at the  ripe old age of 9 mos weighed over 30 pounds and wore size  4t  
clothes.  
100% breastfed.  I don't know his previous  official  weights, but even now 
at 
not quite 2 yrs of age is still the  exact same weight  (over 30 pounds).  He 
eats reg foods and is  still nursing.  He was/is  a huge little guy.  I have 
NEVER  seen legs like that on a baby before...and  boy, you could resist 
kissing  
those chunky cheeks.  Now he is thinning  out...which is a natural  
progression.  We joke with the mom about her  SUPER milk.   (in fact she 
donated a few 
bottles for my daughter  when we were trying  to desperately figure out her 
issues--you should have  seen the fat  layer on that stuff lol) 

My 7yr old son, who was exclusively bf until 6  mos,  was 24 pounds at his 4 
month check up (9# 2oz at birth) he has  always been  95th-100 percentile, 
with 
a few visits being above the 100  percentile.  He  has thinned out.  He is 7 
yrs 9 mos now and  is 74.5 lbs.  He is at the  95th percentile.  It has 
always  
been his curve.  He isn't at all  fat...Just a linebacker  lol.   Neither of 
my 
other  children were at all like that,  but it is just him....some kids are 
just 
big  babies, and again as long  as they are healthy and happy, where is the  
problem?  We asked  the pediatrician at one point when he was an infant if  
we 
should be  concerned with his "obesity"...he chuckled and said, No... if he  
was 
3  yrs old and that obese, then we would be concerned....well at 3 yrs of   
age, he was still a big boy but no longer any fat to be noticed.  All  pure  
muscle.  Now I know where the line backers DO come  from.

Renee Drake RN CLC

I make milk....What's YOUR  superpower???



I make milk....What's YOUR superpower???

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