The Adventures of Boy Tiny
Finn went to the doc for his 4 month checkup (at about 4.75 months) and he's officially a tiny little guy. 30th percentile height and weight - almost 15 pounds. We'd suspected as much, although we think the MA measured him wrong at 24.5 inches and that he's probably over 25 inches.
Life with Boy Tiny is fun. He can still wear a couple of his newborn clothes, but mostly 3-6 month clothes. He outgrows everything in the length and rarely the width. He's still on the smallest snaps on ONE side of his Fuzzi Bunz and they occassionally leak because he's so trim in his hips.
Some things about having a smaller baby suck, especially the clothes. No one makes clothes for skinny little boys. Everyone touts the benefits of things fitting their baby's chubby thighs but no one says something is great because it fits their little string bean. It's hard to find things that work for his body type.
And that's our little boy, out little joy. He he.
posted by Sacha @ 6:10 PM
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4 Comments:
What about Gap, Old Navy, Gymboree? Those clothes are way too long and skinny for Natalie.
Gap and Gymboree fit Finn pretty well but they still tend to be too wide - he still outgrows length before width. Old Navy definately too wide.
30th %ile?? That's not tiny! He's bigger than almost 1/3 of boys his age!
But yes, the clothes seem to be made for the huge size of average kid. Kate has been at the 25th %ile right along. At 18 months she most ocmfortably fits in 12 month onseies and most 18 month clothes fit with room to spare. It's puzzling because she seems short and wide to us...and clearly Finn seems long and thin.
Weird...
Anyway, he's perfect! But you already knew that.
Don't know if this is your kind of thing, but Ralph Lauren and Petit Bateau both tend to run long and skinny. Might be perfect for Finn!
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