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goldenholdeb

Really concerned about my 10 month old's weight

Feeding

She's been gaining weight pretty rapidly since she was about 2 months old and I'm anxious that she's at high risk for obesity in childhood because of it. For context, she's 28 inches tall and has stayed in the 50-57th percentile for height since she was about 2 months old. However, she went from the 12th percentile at 2 months to 55th percentile at 3 months, 80th percentile at 5 months, 90th percentile at 6 months, and now at 10 months she's in the 99th percentile for weight and I don't see any signs of her having a vertical growth spurt any time soon to make up for it. Everyone told me the extra weight would start melting off of her when she started crawling and walking and being more active, but she's been crawling and cruising for about a month now and she just keeps gaining weight.

I'm trying really hard to not project my own self image issues onto her.... my father struggled with obesity before he passed, and my mother is still morbidly obese. I've struggled with obesity since middle school. I know my family's food habits aren't very good and I've been trying to shield my daughter from that, but I fear I'm somehow failing anyway. I did the math and she shouldn't be getting an excessive number of calories from the amount of formula and solid foods she's getting in a day but nonetheless, she weight gain is far outpacing her height and I don't know what to do about it.

I know my pediatrician said that she doesn't worry about babies being "overweight" within the first year, but we're only a month and a half away from her first birthday so I feel like at this point it's pretty clear it's going to be a problem? What do I even do??

Posted Jul 19, 2025, 7:45 PM UTC

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