To be annoyed someone called my baby fat?

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And that the person was the MIL! Later asked me if I should feed her less!!? She's only 4.5 months old!! Argghhh
Give me strength people

Aww luffly!

Both mine have been hoggy, fat, squishy, squodgy piglets. The comments never bothered me, all babies are yummy.

That's DS when he was about 3 months old, in the hot weather. Even his rolls had rolls. YUMMY!

Oof! What a boy! Love the relaxed pose :)

Ds at 4 months, he was massive!

Look at those legs! You'd get a meal off them I say that to the cat

This is ds at just over a year, he is much more normal sized now (although he does still have chubby legs) he only weighs a little more than he did at 4 months old!

Ikea, he is GORGE!

DD was a skinny 'froggy' looking (long-limbed) wee one so when DS arrived I was so pleased I had a chubby one! He had rolls of blubber round wrists, knees and ankles, a squidgable face and a roly poly tum. Love a chubby baby!
He is three now, still a stocky chap but a perfect weight/height.

(Disclaimer - I love DD more than life itself. She just wasn't as cuddly as DS.)

what is it with in laws...grates my cheese!

My FIL told me my ds was 'obese' the first time he saw him at 48hours old.
My DS was 9lbs 7oz and 2 foot long when he was born.

He's now so tall and skinny, he's just 2 and wears 5 year old clothes but weighs 12kgs. So Skinny.

Most babies are chubby, on and off for the first year in between growth spurts how else would they grow.

Say to your Mil its normal for babies to be chubby, whats her excuse for being cow?

Someone called my dd fat when she was that age. I was really upset. Silly I know.

Thanks :) I miss his monster thighs!

My fat little boy! I didn't realise till I looked back at photos (he's just turned 3 now ). They are supposed to look like that

Thrilled that this thread has caused people to post photos of lovely fat babies. More please!

I love my fat baby. But when I boast about his being fat, people always behave as though Im being disrespectful ....he's just adorable and far more cuddly than my first who was always long of leg and a skinny wee thing.

This is my chunk at two days, she was never a 'baby' baby, went straight in to 3 month - donated all her new born stuff

She is 98 centile and in 18 m clothes at 10 months

Dd1 didn't have knees or elbows - she was a Buddha. Now she could climb through a letter box !

Squidgy babies fare better than skinny minnies when they are poorly! Its good old insurance against teething, bad tummies etc.

Ds4 at 8 months

I don't think it's as unreasonable as it may sound tbh.

Ds1 was a very, very fat baby. Not just chubby as lots of babies are, but fat - rolls and everything. He was ff from 7 day old and we just could NOT fill him. He was drinking massive amounts of milk (and was never sick, so it all went in) - I can't remember how many ounces it was now but by 16 weeks he was on roughly double the 'recommended' amount for a baby of that age.

The HV recommended early weaning as a form of 'diet' you could call it, to reduce his milk intake.

We started slowly at 17 weeks with fruit and veg purees. He was instantly more satisfied, settled and sleeping better. His milk intake dropped to a more 'normal' amount within days, and after a couple of months he was just a chubby baby rather than a very fat one.

Try having a super skinny one.

My almost 15 year old still only weighs 5 stone and at 1 years old he was only 12 pounds. Double that with being a young mother I was told all the time that I needed to feed him.

He was in and out of hospital but in the end they discharged him because he just takes after his dad who weighed 9.5 stone at his heaviest. They did have to give him supplements and keep him in for observations until he hit a weight that they found was healthy enough.

I got some awful comments and judgments.

I have had three skinny babies and two chubby ones. I like chubby babies and I like tiny ones, my eldest looked like a newborn for months.

System, I hear you. I had to FF almost from the outset, as my supply never came in at all, and as I had never expected BF to fail and had absorbed so much the dictum that 'you can't overfeed a BF baby', I was terrified at the idea that I might damage my baby by overfeeding him with formula.

I still have our sleep-deprived records of the amounts of formula he drank daily in his first few weeks. In fact, he drank the recommended daily amount for his age, and followed his birth centile line as he grew, so there was no actual need for alarm, but I was terrified I was going to lay down the foundations for later obesity, and no one - HV, GP etc - seemed to have any actual information on it. But it's why the remark made by two nasty BF mothers about how you could always tell a FF baby because of their 'fat, puffy' look upset me so much.

I do think that the emphasis on the preferability of breastfeeding means that central questions about formula - such as 'Can I overfeed a FF baby?' - are difficult to find fact-based answers to.

The FIRST think my MIL said when she saw DD2, was 'isn't she fat'. Seriously. The first thing she said. I was too stunned to reply at the time, but wished I had used the MN chestnut of 'did you mean to be so rude'.

A woman stopped me outside the chemist when DD was 6 months old and said "my God!! Your baby has got fat legs!" So I replied "well she's only 6 months old..."

She then told me I "should do something about it" so I said I would get her on the exercise bike.

Some people are so pass-remarkable. Obviously it still rankles me even though DD is now 5 and has average legs

My squidge.