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Why is my 15 month old so fat?

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Skatingonthinice16 · 19/03/2017 13:18

She's 82cm and 35lbs.

She has a weetabix for breakfast with an ounce and a half of breast milk.
She has a sandwich with cheese spread or peanut butter for lunch - only one piece of bread - and then some fruit which she loves.
For dinner she usually has jacket potato with cheese / beans, some chicken / fish / turkey with some potato and vegetables, some tomato pasta or sometimes an omelette. Pudding she has some more fruit.

For a snack she does like the organix carrot stick crisps or fruit. She occasionally has a biscuit.

But she still has about 600mls of breast milk a day. I know this because I'm expressing for her and she drinks every thing I express which is between 550-600mls a day.
Is this why she's so fat?
I'm sure my son ate more than this at this age and although weighed similar he was taller - about 90cm - his dad is very tall and now aged 7 my son is skinny but in age 11 clothes which are huge round the middle but anything smaller flap around his ankles!

My daughter has just started walking independently but will walk for about two hours just holding one of my hands. She rarely uses the pushchair now.

I'm a bit concerned as to why she's so big?

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MrsLettuce · 19/03/2017 21:17

Link: kellymom.com/bf/pumpingmoms/pumping/milkcalc/ Hmmsorry

JonesyAndTheSalad · 20/03/2017 00:46

Well if OP's baby weighs so much she should see a GP regardless of what "kellymom" says.

PrimeraVez · 21/03/2017 11:52

I would also suggest reducing the bed time bottle (surely 14oz is 2 bottles??) My DS who is a similar age has around 6oz before bed - any more and his nappy would be sopping wet by the morning.

Well done for keeping up pumping for so long, it's bloody hard work.

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