Tiny Baby Pictures

SteelyKid is running a bit big for her age-- she'll be six months next weekend, but she's outgrown all her six-month size clothes-- but she's still tiny. At least, I think so, and Kate has the pictures to show why.

(I look awfully smug in that picture, mostly because it's only in the last week or two that I've regained the ability to get her to go to sleep while I'm holding her. For weeks and weeks, every time I tried to get her to go to sleep, she'd scream and kick and thrash until I had to give up and either hand her over to Kate, or put her in the sling. That was a serious bummer, so I'm pretty happy to get her to sleep in my arms again.)

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Cute pic. You've probably noticed this by now, but all sizes on baby clothes are a lie. They make "9 mo." clothes that are perfect for 6 month old babies so that new parents will think, "Wow! My little one is growing so fast s/he's already in 9 month sizes!" This trend finally seems to stop once you get up to toddler sizes.

She is legitimately bigger than average-- 70-somethingth percentile in length, though only 50-somethingth in weight. (Those figures are two months old, but we'll have fresh data on Wednesday.)

Don't get too hung up on those percentile charts, they're just a rough guideline. Parents of the 50% of babies who fall under the 50th percentile on something have a tendency to freak out because their baby is below average.

Romeo, does "rough guideline" apply at the extremes, too? One of my brother's was in the 95th percentile at birth and pretty much stayed there. (He's about 6'5".)

By marciepooh (not verified) on 02 Feb 2009 #permalink

I think it's Chad's shirt. It looks perfect for snoozing on.

I agree with Doug@1 about baby clothing sizes. My kid fell off the bottom of the size and weight charts a few times, and she actually fit 3 months sized outfits at 3 months of age.

By David Owen-Cruise (not verified) on 04 Feb 2009 #permalink