Big Baby

[Bart]

Big Baby

Recently saw an article about how parents are at fault for their kids being fatties, sometimes they maybe if all they feed them is crappy fatty foods aka takaways, with no exercise and letting them sit in front of the TV or play computer games all day long.
Well what can you do about babies that are born big at birth.
And the parents seemingly want them to be even bigger.

"A Melbourne mother who gave birth to a whopping 5.66kg (12 lb 8 oz) baby three weeks before her due date says her new born baby reminded her of a "sumo wrestler".

Cara Callaghan was the biggest premature baby on the records at Angliss Hospital when her mum, Brunella, gave birth to her by caesarean on November 16.

Mrs Callaghan, 35, said she did not expect her baby to be so large, despite being "very big" during pregnancy, with doctors telling her the baby (her second) would be "nine, 10 pounds".

"It was a big surprise having her weigh in at 12 and half pounds," she told Nine News.

Dr Geoff McCallum told Nine News that in 20 years at Angliss Hospital he had never seen a baby as big as Cara.

"Another three weeks to go, she would have been enormous," he said.

Proud parents, Ms Callaghan and her husband, Ron, told Nine News they are taking their time after deciding on whether to have a third child, after doctors told them that they can expect their third baby to be even bigger.

"We've been told the next one would be bigger," Mr Callaghan said. "

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/838 ... 5-6kg-baby

[mantra]

Do fat mothers have fat babies? When I had my babies - I only remember seeing one large mother and she had a tiny little underweight baby. Obesity hadn't become an epidemic back then. The mothers today are huge. Their babies seem to start off normally but when they get to about 5 or 6 you notice they start to thicken up around the middle and by the time they're teenagers - their health is compromised.

Proud parents, Ms Callaghan and her husband, Ron, told Nine News they are taking their time after deciding on whether to have a third child, after doctors told them that they can expect their third baby to be even bigger.

There isn't a photo of the parents so you don't know if they're large also. Perhaps it's all the hormones in food today that's causing huge babies.

[boxy]

High average birth weights are a good thing for infant health. Probably indicates good nutrition and a lowering rate of smoking during pregnancy.

Obese kids is another issue altogether.

[IQS.RLOW]

I thought this thread was about Monk and Aussie

Carry on...

[HBS Gay]

I get a big fat thomtimeth thmelly! Whenever my Demi goeth down! Ithn't thee thweet!

[mellie]

My daughter was a weedy slender child in year 6 and in the space of 12 months put on a decent amount of weight far too quickly, despite her diet remaining the same.

I knew she had put on too much too quickly for this to be dietary related, so I demanded blood tests to check her thyroid.

The first test came back clear, though she continued putting on weight.

I used to look at bigger kids (especially the morbidly obese) and under my breath curse their negligent parents for allowing them to get to this unhealthy weight range ...this was until my own daughter started packing on weight then was diagnosed with Hoshimotos disease several months later. By this stage, her thyroid had completely shut down (within 6 months) thus she now takes thyroxine each day. Slowly, her weight is returning to normal...but it's a slow process, and now she has so much more energy to burn.

My daughters father has an under active thyroid also, though never had it treated, and probably still hasn't for all I know.

Which is why early detection is so crucial, before their weight spirals into a morbidly obese unhealthy weight range.
Persistence pays off, when I requested another blood test to once again, check her thyroid, her paediatrician more or less only did it to shut me up.

His attitude changed dramatically when he called me at home with her results.

These days i'm less inclined to jump to conclusions, and or inwardly judge parents with overweight kids I see out and about.


Because sometimes there's a genuine medical reason for why their kids are over-weight.


1 in 4 Australian woman have either an over -active or under-active thyroid.






Australia and NZ are among the worlds most iodine and selenium depleted soils world-wide according the the World Health Organisation.(WHO)

[mellie]

Do fat mothers have fat babies?

Sometimes yes, sometimes no....depends on whether the mother has gestational diabetes, pre-eclampsia, etc.

From what I have observed, woman with gestational diabetes (pregnancy related diabetes) who are not taking care of themselves properly not only increase the likelihood of pregnancy and birth-related health complications, but can in fact give birth to exceedingly large infants.

I remained within a normal weight range with both my children, my son was born 3635 grams (about 8 pound) and my daughter was 2722 grams, just over 6 pound. However, my daughter was born approx 2 weeks early, given my obstetrician wanted to go away at Xmas, so induced her on the 13th.

My son was born 2 weeks over due, my daughter two weeks early.

And like Mantra, I too recall having a rather obese mother in the same ward with me, who gave birth to a tiny baby, 4 pound from memory.

The mother's excess amounts of blood glucose are transferred to the fetus during pregnancy. This causes the baby's body to secrete increased amounts of insulin, which results in increased tissue and fat deposits. The infant of a diabetic mother (IDM) is often larger than expected for the gestational age.

http://www.lpch.org/DiseaseHealthInfo/H ... btmom.html

Obesity increases the odds of acquiring gestational diabetes during pregnancy, yet another good reason to maintain a healthy weight range before during and after pregnancy.

[AiA in Atlanta]

Had a friend whose daughter was the heaviest baby ever born at that particular hospital. Yeah, the mother is fat, and the mother's father was fat ... and this girl grew up to be built like a house.

[mellie]

My grandmother had a wise old saying, 'Fat babies make fat adults'.

Expecting parents need to remember that they aren't eating for two in the sense one should eat twice as much, rather should be aware that what they eat before , during and after pregnancy can impact on the health and well-being of their babies well into adulthood.

[mellie]

Had a friend whose daughter was the heaviest baby ever born at that particular hospital. Yeah, the mother is fat, and the mother's father was fat ... and this girl grew up to be built like a house.

Was she diabetic?

http://www.diabetesafghanistan.com/cont ... 114417.jpg

The mother I mean...