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Babies: 6 - 9 Months
tokenhoser
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Not every "fat" baby is being force-fed crap
tokenhoser
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I'm so sick of the "OMG! This baby weighed X pounds at Y months!"
Babies are different sizes. My little dude is a very boring, average baby (17 lb at 6 months), but we go to mom's groups and there are babies there that are up to 22 and 23 lb at the same age. They've been EBF to at least 5.5 months. They're just chunkers - and that's fine.
Don't assume every big baby is big because the parents gave cereal too early or give the baby McDonalds or whatever. It's a really rude assumption.
And on the flip side, don't assume every small baby is being starved by their parents. It's an equally rude assumption.
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Re: Not every "fat" baby is being force-fed crap
I am the owner of a big baby, and after a year am pretty over everyone saying "he's huge!" or giving me the side eye when I tell them how old he is.
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Word. It's also rude to say, "THAT big baby came out of YOU?!"
Yes, apparently petite bodies are capable of growing 9-pounders. Bigger women don't have bigger babies, smaller women don't have smaller babies. Size of mom has nothing to do with size of baby, just like baby's growth has nothing to do with being fed crap. Newsflash: human beings come in all shapes and sizes. I just blew your mind, old lady at the supermarket.
I was told i'd need a c-section because my baby was "too big." I refused it and he came out 8lbs. We both survived!
He's now average (60th percentile) but I gotta say, I love me a nice fat baby! The more rolls and dimples, the better! Maybe i'll start feeding him fries
ITA, token. However, at some point, there are definitely babies that overstep the bounds of "normal." By definition, if we use the Bell-Curve model, 5% of babies will fall into the "above normal" range and 5% will fall into the "below normal" range. So while most babies will be "within normal limits" there will be babies who aren't.
Just playing Devil's Advocate!
And those babies' parents should have conversations with doctors.
Not bumpies, not old ladies at the supermarket, and not even me.
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People are strange. In the same breath I would hear "OMG he's soooo huge" and "When are you going to give him some real food?"
I will say though, that until TB it would have never occurred to me that commenting on a baby's chunkiness or tiny-ness would be insulting. It wasn't a comment on their nutritional status, I just had to think of something to say besides squealing...
My baby is teeny compared to the size her sister was at her age. But for me, my family is very tall & my husband's family is on the petite side. But although she is little, she's very healthy & has LOTS of rolls on her thighs! (I love the rolls!!)
I did know a baby that was very fat however because the parents (very sad!) kept feeding him to shut him up. (again, very sad) I know this because I used to watch him & was friends with the mom. They fed him a 6 OZ bottle of formula every hour!!
But, not ever little baby is starved & not every big baby is fed too much.
Braydon 1.23.09
My first baby was tiny, always on the small side, but always happy and EBF. I would go to the LC like crazy to make sure he was getting enough because I was so worried about him being so small.
Fast forward to my new LO...he is a chunker! He is also EBF and we haven't done anything differently. It's just the way he is and it's so awesome to see the differences between the two boys. I love my little big guy and am happy to point out he's EBF when people make comments about how big he is.
I think it's funny because a friend of mine had a "big baby" the first time and now has a "tiny baby" and she was so concerned about his weight because he wasn't like her first baby.
Amen to the babies are different thing!
DS is 23 lbs. so I definitely get comments about how chunky he is and how he must eat a ton. It doesn't bother me too much but sometimes I feel the need to defend how much he eats. He doesn't eat too much and he is a perfectly healthy baby. He is just big and tall!
Thank you! My DS has always been big. I don't feed him crap and we get plenty of exercise and he is still considered overweight!
My DS is 2 years 5 months weighs 35 lbs. Which puts him in the 93% tile. He is also short for his age.
I feel like people look down on me and my parenting because of it. It makes me so mad.
You have to remember that the percentile that they give you in the Dr's office is based on larger babies. so if you baby is little, like mine, they consider her small. But she is healthy & well proportioned so her Dr isn't worried at all. Personally, I LOVE her rolls!! My mom & oldest call her a "Chunker Bunker"
She is 9 months & 18 lbs. in the 20th percentile. My oldest was ALWAYS in the 90s!
Every child is different & there is nothing wrong with that!!
Ugh!!! Thank you!! My LO is in the 99th percentile for weight and 90th for height. I despise the comment "well she doesn't miss a meal does she??" because I just think that it's not like I'm going to put my 6 month old on a diet when both her doctor and I are very pleased with her health and current diet.
My kids are big. DD1 was 90th+ for both height and weight until she was almost 4, since then she has dropped to 50th for weight and 90th for height at her 6 year well child visit.
My DS was like 95% weight/50% height up until his 3 year appointment. Guess what his "percentiles" were then? 75% height/ 50% weight.
In other words, I totes agree
I would have had that biitch fired so effing fast.