What is it about baby chub?

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DS 2 drunk lots of milk and was a lovely chubby baby. I just enjoyed squeezing the rolls of chub around his thighs, and tickling him under his chins! His wrists were so fat he looked like a Michelin man. It was a delightful sensation to hold and cuddle a lovely fat/content baby.

I just love a chubby baby - I want to eat them all up! Or at the very least put piri-piri sauce on those lovely wobbly legs!!!!!!

Does anyone else feel like this? Why do chubby babies make you feel like you have to physically touch/grab the chub? Any ideas? There must be a reason for it.

Fat babies don’t necessarily become fat adults.

My second was preemie and 4lb 10 at birth. By 6 months she was a total chubber! Squidgy fat legs and arms and neck. So so cute (but you had to wash and dry carefully)

By 18 months she was running around and long and lean. She’s now 16 and a size 8 and since she found her feet she’s never been even slightly chubby.

That little chonk phase was nice, and reassuring for me after being two months preemie.

My 10mo DS is a proper little chunky chops. It’s all I can do not to chew on his gorgeous chubby little feet!

My eldest was a cubby baby. I've got a great picture of him sat in his bimbo where I'd had to take his t-shirt off as it was mucky. So many rolls of fat! One of DH's colleagues said he had "elastic band wrists".
It's a good job he had so much spare. Age 3 he decided he didn't like eating and then had a bad bout of chicken pox. He turned to skin and bone. Still a skinny nine year old.
Ds2 wasn't a fat baby. However he's not been so fussy about food and is a healthy size aged 6. Both gorgeous in their own way.

FFS autocorrect! CHUBBY baby. Sat in his BUMBO!
Argh.

Oh I love a chubby baby!

Those wrist rolls and chubby cheeks and the squishy bits behind their knees ❤️

My DS is 2 now and has really slimmed down and I miss those chubby baby snuggles

I love little chubs, not outwardly the type of person to ooh over babies/toddlers, but inside I’m squealing! DS is skinny, so I just look at photos of his baby thighs and wrist-rolls 😢

@sapnupuas

My son had no chub. I felt robbed.

He's four and a half now and he's in 2-3 clothes. Not a single ounce of chub for pinching to be found.

It's normal for children to be like greyhounds from about age three to nine, between toddlerhood and puberty.

Ds was a proper chunk, but tall too. Now at 2 he's starting to slim down slowly. I liked having a chubby baby - I never had to worry if he had a bug or was ill and off food as he had reserves galore! I did also have a few worries that he was huge as he was up the top of the centiles but he's a healthy active boy who can out walk or run his more slender friends any day.

My two were fairly lean, but when my sister had my niece I fully leant into the chubby baby love.

The wee rolls on her thighs, the creases on her wrists and forearms, her chubby cheeks!

She’s started to crawl now and she’s rapidly losing the extra rolls, much to my huge disappointment.

I don't get this obsession with fat babies. Its weird. No, they are not any cuter than an average sized baby, and I find it a bit creepy that people think like that.
Not so cute when they get to about 5 and everyone is whinging and panicking about the obesity crisis in this country.

I get what you mean about the ‘obsession for fat babies.’ Some are just slightly pudgy babies but some are overweight and it can follow them to being overweight toddlers. I saw a child on social media (instagram) who was massively overweight but people in the comments were saying how cute and fat she was etc. I forget the name of the account but it was linked to a baby fashion account.

Of course most babies are just cutely chubby and will grow out of it when they start walking, it just made me think about that little girl then.

@QueenofmyPrinces

I don’t like looking at fat babies with rolls of fat. When people show me photos of their fat babies and expect me to gush over them it just leads to a very uncomfortable silence.

The correct thing to say is 'Ooh, what lovely wallpaper! Where did you get it from?'.

No, I don't understand this either. I like baby back ribs and jelly babies but I've never once wanted to sink my teeth into a human baby.

Mine have all been really chubby. All above the 98th percentile by three months. They are all very slim now. My HV did try to get me to put my first on my diet but when she was a baby which I ignored. There are no overweight people in mine or my husbands immediate family so I knew they would all slim down.

I don't like seeing chubby babies, I don't think it's cute at all. I much prefer them on the slimmer side like all three of mine were.

My nephew didn't walk until he was 22 months, so stayed pretty chunky up until that point!
His name is Joshua but we used to call him Squashua or Squashie 😬

I love babies of all sizes. But I hope DS isn't too massive when I have to push him out of me early next year!

@movingonup20 no, it doesn’t meant they’re overweight at all. A good bit of squish on a baby is perfectly healthy and actually good for them. It’s quite different to an unhealthily over weight baby.

If someone shows you a picture of their baby, why can't you just be polite and say, "Oh how cute?" Or compliment the eyes or something?

Well I could but my first reaction is to notice at all the fat/chub and no words come out my mouth.

People know whether you genuinely think the baby is gorgeous because of the way you instantly react to the photo (lots of gushing), or whether they are just complimenting the eyes because they can’t think of anything else to say.

I was once shown a photo of a baby who was about 3-4 months old and he was massive. Without any chance to think about what to say, I said: “Good God, look at the size of him he’s huge!” .....and not in a good way. I felt awful but the words came out my mouth immediately upon seeing the photo and before I knew it, it was too late.

I just can’t get gushy over photos of fat babies and I’m really bad at faking it

My DS was only ever on the 2nd centile and a tiny skinny baby. He was like a baby bird and everyone wanted to cuddle him