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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. 
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> It's like the guideline for baby to regain birthweight by 2 wks, but most do so in much less time.
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> 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".
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> Phyllis
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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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