Slowed growth at 5 months old?

Question

My daughter is 5 1/2 months old. At her 4 month appointment she was above the 97% in both height and weight. Since then her weight has kept going up, she's 21 1/2 lbs! (almost exclusively breastfed, the occasional fortified rice cereal), but she has only grown another 3/4 of an inch since 4 months. Is this normal? (As a note, the father and I are both 6' tall and slender)

Answer 1

It's totally normal for her growth to slow down around the middle of the first year.  It may continue to slow down as she becomes more active, and that's not a problem either.

My older son weighed 20 lbs by his 4 month checkup, 26 lbs at a year, and is now a very healthy 4 year old at 42 inches tall and 40 lbs.

Answer 2

You only need to worry about weight loss. My baby was in a very very high percentile by 2 mos. Dad and I are both tall and skinny too. She has "dropped" to a lower percentile gradually.