diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
index ceff12e6a..7b1b3bbfd 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 
     <changes>
         <release version="3.8-beta3" date="2011-??-??">
+           <action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">51112 - Correct XWPFTable tracking of new rows</action>
            <action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">51113 - Correct XWPFParagraph tracking of inserted runs</action>
            <action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">51111 - Correct XWPFParagraph tracking of new runs</action>
            <action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">51115 - Handle DataFormatter escaping of "." in the same way as "-" and "/"</action>
diff --git a/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/XWPFTable.java b/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/XWPFTable.java
index 926260e26..ec981cad3 100644
--- a/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/XWPFTable.java
+++ b/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/XWPFTable.java
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ public class XWPFTable implements IBodyElement{
                 .sizeOfTcArray() : 0;
         XWPFTableRow tabRow = new XWPFTableRow(ctTbl.addNewTr(), this);
         addColumn(tabRow, sizeCol);
+        tableRows.add(tabRow);
         return tabRow;
     }
 
diff --git a/src/ooxml/testcases/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/TestXWPFTable.java b/src/ooxml/testcases/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/TestXWPFTable.java
index 91f43f4df..6d9a0e93b 100644
--- a/src/ooxml/testcases/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/TestXWPFTable.java
+++ b/src/ooxml/testcases/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/TestXWPFTable.java
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ public class TestXWPFTable extends TestCase {
 
         //add a new row
         xtab.createRow();
+        assertEquals(4, xtab.getNumberOfRows());
 
         //check number of cols
         assertEquals(2, table.getTrArray(0).sizeOfTcArray());