my BB as well, after he has started solid food, he looks fatter and fatter.
I have a friend whose BB was a small size BB (just 10%) before starting solid food. The BB is now fatter after eating solid and now reached 25%.
you can't control ! my girl was born at 8lb 4oz but now is just over 15lb! she takes about 25oz milk/day (including one cereal). but she is very very tall.
weight => 50th
head => 75th
length => 90th
when i look at her, i don't think she is very thin, just some other babies are really fat (eg. 22lbs at 4th month -- can you imagine how horrible it is ?)
the doctor said that don't worry too much about the total weight, just make sure that the head is growing properly, which is more important. believe that most of us are really skinny when we were young ... ...
totally agree!! i just brought my girl to the doctor for her 6-month vaccination today. she's just 14lbs now (though she was also under 6lbs when born) but she's perfectly healthy and is growing 2 teeth!! doctor said her development is good and since she is also willing to take solid food (i've been giving her fruit, vegetables and rice cereal since she was 4 month cos doctor said given her low weight, she should start solids earlier), there's nothing to worry about...
i think the reason for her low weight is because she's not too willing to drink milk (she now only takes a total of 18-20oz per day, on average). and i guess the jap milk powder that i'm giving her is also not fattening.
anyway, both my husband and i are slim type, so i guess we can't expect our bb to be fat. and it's actually good for a bb girl to be a bit slimmer - cos when she grows up, she will turn into a slim young lady!! :-P
It seems not a lot of July bb can drink up to "standard" of 8 oz per meal. Two weeks ago, my boy drank average 38 oz per day but only 25-30 oz these few days. He fluctuates a lot. It's Ok as long as they are healthy.
my baby eat 6-7 oz each meal x 4 times a day. Rice cereal x one tablespoon per day. Water x 0.5 oz per day. He doesn't like milk very much. He is now 8.3kg. I tried congee water for him and he also doesn't like probably because it has no taste like water.