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I hear that all the time too! It kinda bothers me because it feels like they are judging my LO.

I have the opposite. My lo is at the 95% in weight. People tell me she is huge, which she is. But she's healthy! She's a good eater and that's a good thing. Of course I always worry that people will think I'm making my kid obese ..... but I feed her healthy food and they should just mind their own business.

Ugh, how annoying! That sounds like a perfectly healthy weight - not too small, not too big, so what is everyone talking about!? It seems like babies are getting so much bigger these days that maybe people are just thrown off when they see a baby that is a more 'traditional' (for lack of a better word) size. I know when my siblings and I were all babies (about 30 years ago), 20 lbs at a year was the norm, and that's what all of us were. 17 lbs at 9 months sounds spot on target to be around there so I really don't know what people are talking about.

You know your baby is healthy, your LO's doctor is pleased, and everyone else can go jump in the lake. Keep on doing what you're doing as it's clearly working out just fine for your LO!

I know how you feel. My lo is still under twenty at nearly nineteen months. Yesterday at a party the skinniest lady I know said the same thing I have been hearing since lo was eight months old. She is sooo little. Anyway she eats a lot and is over the top active. I have to have these pep talks for me and my husband too. Doctor keeps threatening to do tests at the next checkup but then gives us 'another chance' and the the cycle of nerves about what she ate today and how much starts all over again.
Btw before six months my lo was huge and dropped fifty percentiles thru the months so that was the main cause for alert. But she really is strong and healthy other than what the chart says.