help health vistor wants me to increase feeds

[kelly337]

hi im new to this and have a few concerns regarding my sons milk intake.
my son was born at 6lb 6.5oz and is now 11 weeks old and weighs 9lb 15oz that was last week and should be in the 10lbs now.
Any way my concern is that is weigh gain has slowed down and the health vistor was concerned he is currently in the 9th percentile for his weight. he has slighlty dropped his curve and the health visitor is telling me that im not feeding him enough, i fortunatly have a sleeper and he sleeps through the night, she said that i must wake him up to feed him through the night but i find this so contradicting as another health vistor said dont wake a sleeping baby.
typically my son has between 18oz and 27oz before i went to get him weighed but now im really having to force him to eat between 23oz and 32oz to satisfy the health vistor but i feel that this is too much compared to other babies feeding amounts. Sinbce i have increased his milk and feeding he doesnt sleep through the night and wakes up at about 3am and again at half 6.
Typically in a day he will have
3am --6oz
6am --5oz
10am--5oz
1.00pm-- 4oz
4.00pm--5oz
7.00pm--5oz
11pm -- he mignt have about 2 oz here

what do you all think of this sorry im babbled on thanks for reading

kelly xx

[rachaelmae]

The amounts hes having seem fine to me! All babies are different he may just be small, some kids are. Aslong as YOU are happy and hes healthy dont stress.

I rarely got my 2nd daughter weighed for this very reason!

[CarlaK]

Seriously, those centiles are a pile of ****! My daughter was so small she didn't even make the centile. She ate well, had a good appetite and was a happy baby. She is still very slight but eats very well.

Ignore her. If you baby is hungry, he will wake! Enjoy motherhood and remember, those health visitors are not the font of all knowledge.

[cole]

Trust yourself. If you think she is fine then she probably is. My eldest was never on the chart from day 1 and even now at 5 I was told a few months back that she is seriously under weight. She is very petit just like her Mummy FFS these HV's like to put fear into you.

At 9lb 15oz she is only just of the 10lbs anyway.

My friend has had it the other way cause her son is a a lot taller than average he is apparantly over weight but he isnt.

xxxx