Obese babies

babyluthi

Good grief. This whole mess is ridiculous. OP talked about a 10 month old BABY!! Babies cannot be obese. That is ridiculous. Children can be, yes, but a baby? No. Some babies are big others are small it all tends to even out in the end unless when they are old enough to develop eating habits you teach them bad ones and they get no exercise. Again, this is well after their first year of life. Babies need some pudge. And imagine if all you did was eat sleep crap yourself and lay/roll/maybe crawl a little. You'd be pretty damn fat too.

Unfortunately they can be:/
It is a phenomenon brought on by baby milk powder being full of fructose.
watch the lecture on your tube called "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" It is explained very well, and yes they do talk about the obesity trend in babies and the reasons why it is happening. It might shock you. There is a difference between a health little fat baby and an obese baby.

babyluthi

This thread is mildly ridiculous.

A 10 month old would be barely weaned - I guess the earliest you take them off the breast is 6 mos, my daughter was weaned at almost exactly 12mos.

Babies should be fed ad-lib, thats why they cry.

It is, what we would call in farming a 'good do-er' nothing more.

Bottle fed babies can become obese due to what is in the milk formula.
Parents need to learn to read those cans as much as they read cans designed for themselves.
High fructose corn syrup will make your baby obese. It cannot/is not processed like glucose.

MyChocolateDiet

OP you are just having an emotional reaction to someone calling your baby "tiny". You are trying to justify your babies size and are boomeranging all the way to the other side of criticizing the other person's baby. This is the thing with babies, the questions start innocent and the next thing you know someone is making their kid seem superior for something or other.

It's just a whole lot of mom angst getting weirder than it has to be. Brush it off. You already know your babies fine. The opinion of a stranger should not matter. You shouldn't even have known the details of any of her kids. In the future maybe don't let people like that bait you into conversation if you can't handle what comes of it. If she asks a question like that pretend not to hear it while you grab a pack of gum and ask how much it costs. Even if it's almost obvious that you heard the question it might help her remember to mind her own business. Don't let her words matter to you. They shouldn't.

ncahill77

My child was measured at the 125 percentile within weeks of her birth.

FYI by definition no one can ever be at "125th percentile".

haha.. tell that to my sons peditirican! that's where my son was. Just means my son was 25% taller then the highest average height//weight of kids his size.

Time for a new pediatrician and for you to brush up on basic math. 25% taller than the "highest' "average" dude....

no, im sorry, your wrong. there is no "125th percentile". it goes to 100 percentile, and thats it.

If you want to get real technical it only goes to 95 on the charts as there is no database that compiles an absolute 100th percentile given that every child born is not plotted into a data base, there fore you are correct but with each child over 95th percentile, depending on the variance, the other children at 75 and 50 are no longer correct per se, therefore it is MUCH simpler to extrapolate any child over the 95th percentile into higher percentiles including over 100th percentile. It really makes no difference and I highly doubt anyone in here is educated enough on statistics to declare that they are outright correct.

ldrosophila

OP you are just having an emotional reaction to someone calling your baby "tiny". You are trying to justify your babies size and are boomeranging all the way to the other side of criticizing the other person's baby. This is the thing with babies, the questions start innocent and the next thing you know someone is making their kid seem superior for something or other.

It's just a whole lot of mom angst getting weirder than it has to be. Brush it off. You already know your babies fine. The opinion of a stranger should not matter. You shouldn't even have known the details of any of her kids. In the future maybe don't let people like that bait you into conversation if you can't handle what comes of it. If she asks a question like that pretend not to hear it while you grab a pack of gum and ask how much it costs. Even if it's almost obvious that you heard the question it might help her remember to mind her own business. Don't let her words matter to you. They shouldn't.

Lovely thought...I had not thought of it from the OP's own feeling.

I just took the visceral gut reaction and had a horrible though of some poor person w/ an ED looking at their baby and putting her or she on a diet.

etoiles_argentees

Don't you agree though that the maternal inheritance matters?The egg you developed from , with half of your chromosomes, was created in your mother's ovaries while she was still in your grandmother's womb. New research shows that that when our grandmothers passed those epigenetic signals to your mother she was also passing those signals to the egg that would provide half of your DNA.

You don't think that the early nutrition influenced the establishing of epigenetic marks?

* i was fed bottled milk and my health is oh so fine.

PlayerHatinDogooder

Someone say fat behbehs?