Hey everybody, hope you are all well?

I havnt been on here for ages and there are a few names i recognise and some new ones too, so hi!

Well my lil man (Owen) is 5 weeks and 3 days old omg! and he is a whopping 12 lb 2 oz. I dont know how hes got so big? lol. Im not exactly big and people keep saying to me, how is he yours just because of the size. Ive got him on hungry baby milk and he has that every 2 hours and ive just started him on half a rusk with milk in the morning and half before bed. I just cant believe how much he eats lol. Is any other babies like this or is my lil monster just plain greedy?

Chelsea n greedy lil man xxx

Hi there

Don't want to alarm you but babies this young should not be eating any solid foods/rusks at all even if they seem extra hungry. The reason is that their insides haven't developed enough to cope and this is why you must wait until 17 weeks. I think hungry milk is ok as long as it's not called Stage 2 milk which again is for when little insides have developed. My advice, as was given to me with babies 3 and 4 who were very hungry, is to give more milk and that's all.

Good luck

heard that giving solids/rusks at a young age can cause liver failure, not sure whether that is true, I know lots of women on here give rusks with warm milk, but I am avoiding them anyway - just in case! xxx

yeah, you should wait till they're old enough. But everything changes. I'm having baby 5 in 8 weeks, baby 4 is 9 mths old and health visitor told me not to give rusks at all as they're pure carb. By that time Charlie loved them and half the things I eat are pure carb so I limited them as a weekend treat and still do even though he's older. Some of current advice given seems excessive but some, I reckon, are thoroughly researched such as the no solids till at least 17 weeks. As I fed my teenagers from 8 weeks old I'll feel suitably guilty if they have liver/stomach probs when older but that was the advice then. I also put hot choc in their bedtime bottle so they would associate it with sleep(and they did) but now you would be told that the sugar would make them hyper and be bad etc etc...

I dont think that is that big, really! I mean, women give birth to babies that are like 10 - 11lb's, I heard of a 12lb last week, and then an 11LB's. Babies are supposed to just grow, then they tendto slow down as they start crawling and moving around. He sounds like he is doing great. My boy was born 8lb 12oz, and weighed about 5.5kg's at 5 weeks (dont know how to convert to pounds sorry).

Multiply by 2.2 to convert kg to lbs so 5.5 = 12.1. I'm hoping my baby isn't going to be too huge as my OH weighed 10 lbs at birth! So far it seems to be normal but I'm still a bit nervous!

xxx