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Anyone else annoyed by the coverage of obesity in babies

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margoandjerry · 15/06/2007 15:55

Huge splashy coverage saying that overweight in small children should be treated as an abuse issue - following which the BBC reveal that 20 cases of obesity in children have required the involvement in social services.

It turns out that this means obese children being DELIBERATELY overfed by their parents as a form of control - not just ordinary families struggling to maintain healthy diets for their kids. And actually 20 cases is tiny.

Then the BBC run this shock horror headline that one infant doubled his weight in six months - which is actually quite normal when you think about it. My daughter was premature but weighed 7lbs at birth at which point she was skinny and 14lbs six months later when she looked like a proper baby with baby fat.

It's just really annoying me - pathologising fatness and criminalising ordinary parents.

Of course we need to be concerned about children's health and diet and activity levels are crucial but I thought this coverage was really irresponsible.

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harrisey · 15/06/2007 16:46

It did mention (or maybe it was somewhere else) parents feeding their child a McDonalds Milkshake in a bottle!

TBH surely everyone knows this is a bad idea.

Its normal to double birthweight by 6mo and triple by 1 yr - so my 10lb dd2 was about 19lb at 6m and 27 lb at a year. If you double from 6m-1y that is not so good.

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