Infant Weight Gain

Infant weight gain charts are useful as a gross guideline. Other factors may effect your baby's growth like genetic and ethnic differences.

When your baby is latched on well and you are breastfeeding according to your baby’s hunger cues, your baby's growth and development will progress naturally.

Breastfed Baby Weight Gain Chart

Age of Baby	Healthy Weight Gain pounds ~ grams
Birth to 7 days	A loss of less than 10% of birth weight
Day 14	Has regained birth weight
2 to 7 weeks	20 to 30 grams per day
Birth to 3 months	6 oz ~ 170 gm.s per week or 1.5 - 2 lb.s ~ 680-906 gm.s per month
4 to 6 months	4-5 oz ~ 113-142 gm.s per week
6 to 12 months	2-4 oz ~ 57-113 gm.s per week

Breastfeeding is an art that is slowly perfected over time. In the beginning many mothers worry about their baby’s infant weight gain and milk intake.

A healthy infant head circumfrence chart follows the normal growth pattern of a healthy breastfed baby.

Breastfed Infant Head Growth Chart

Age of Baby	Growth in Length per month inches ~ cm.s	Growth in Head Circumference per month inches ~ cm.s
Birth to 6 months	1 inch ~ 2.5 cm.s	1/2 inch ~ 1.25 cm.s
6 to 12 months	1/2 inch ~ 1.25 cm.s	1/4 inch ~ .625 cm.s