Now We Are Six (weeks)

This is you at six weeks. You look like a real baby now, not a newborn.

Growing a baby

Last Saturday was your Mummy’s birthday so we all went for a walk in Westonbirt Arboretum to celebrate. The grownups looked at the trees which were decked in the last of their autumn finery, Summer ran round in circles and barked at other dogs. You dozed in your buggy.

The health visitor who came and weighed you on Friday says you are now 8lbs 9oz so your Mummy has been calling you fatty Finn. (She’s feeling smug because she is already back in her pre-pregnancy jeans.)

But I’ve been doing my sums and I don’t think you’re fat at all. Mummy is just growing you well. My old ‘how to grow a baby’ book - it’s really called Babyhood by Penelope Leach – says breastfed babies gain on average 7oz a week. Since you are now four weeks old that means you should weigh 28 oz more than when you were born.

Pounds and ounces are more complicated than grams and kilos – but take it from me that if you add 28oz to your birthweight of 6lb 12oz you get 8lb 8oz. So I’d say you are pretty much spot on.