How to dress my fat baby?

[ElleDubloo]

My baby is really fat. Really really fat. She weighed 7.5 kg at 4 months (over the 91st centile line) and now 2 weeks later looks even heavier. She is quite long but also very fat, with soft pot belly and two fat folds per half-limb.

Every day I dress her in a 6-9 month vest and sleepsuit. But I'd like to dress her in something more interesting. When we go out, she looks like a 9-month old, so people wonder why is she in a sleepsuit all the time?? Problem is, it's a bit of a struggle getting tights, leggings and trousers over her fat thighs and big bottom. It's possible, but faffy, especially as she needs her nappy changed a lot due to frequent breastfed liquidy poo explosions and a copious appetite. Dresses are OK, but I don't want to leave her legs bare in this cold weather.

Any ideas for alternative clothing?

Any brands that are good for really really fat babies?

I will add my fat baby when I am at the computer!! Loving the pics!

Babies are "supposed" to be fat. People look at my long thin baby as if she's poorly (she's very healthy just grows limbs better than rolls).

I feel sad people think of the word as an automatic insult not a neutral adjective, to the extent that a thread celebrating chubby babies is mistaken for insulting.

Sparkly I'd look at your gigantic baby and think she is gorgeous, bloody LOVE a chubby baby

Ooh shedding, look at those chops! Love it

I maybe the only one but at the repeated calling your beautiful little girl fat.

H&m next John lewis leggings and tops/dresses cardigans. No denim.

I'd keep a 4 month old in age appropriate clothes - I think sleepsuits are the comfiest thing at that age. Definitely don't dress her for the age she looks/fits. I have a tall DD and always try to dress her in age appropriate clothes otherwise she'd end up wearing One Direction pyjamas at 4 and with people expecting her to act even older than they already do.

Jesus. Fat?

Why are some people assuming that calling a baby fat is an insult?! You only think that because you have an issue and you think fat is bad! Babies can be fat. Fat fat fat fat fat. It's not a bad thing to call them. What do you call babies like that, large? Curvy where it counts?! Jesus. OP is clearly proud of her fat baby and had posted a lovely picture. Stop with your stupid faces people!

I called my gorgeous dd fat when she was a few months old, as in she's getting lovely and fat, and FIL said don't say that you'll give her a complex

The expression baby fat comes from the fact that babies carry excess flesh for growth. Even babies on the lower centiles will be carrying extra fat in proportion. It's a normal developmental thing.

Fat is the best term to use really; the baby is not obese, or overweight, or any euphemism that could be insulting - the baby is fat

I think it's weird that some words have become so loaded that you can't use them in the appropriate context any more.

One of my dds looked a bit like a larger version of the Michelin man. We also used cloth nappies. I found h&m cuts fairly generous over the bum and also got some knitted merino wool leggings from an organic mail order company(Cambridge baby). They were great, very soft, comfy warm and seemed to grow with her. Much better than cotton leggings.
At some point dd had four chins and I could not find her neck when cleaning her!!
She is a very slim 9yr old now.

shedding - @ 'spherical' baby. The babies on this thread are absolutely adorable.

My once fat babies are now skinny as a rake children. But yes they were fat, gorgeous rolls of baby fat like the Michelin man. I loved their baby rolls! Once crawling and then.walling it went, they shot.up in.height etc. Nothing wrong with fat babu rolls. Ooh to squidgy a chunky baby!

I had one of each a fat baby then a skinny one.

Totally outing me, but anyway, here is my chubber - this was when she was about 8 months.

YY Bugs the only thing here making me is the idea that It's more body inclusive and kinder to avoid the word fat ... thus basically saying fat is always bad even in babies, thus being really quite body-shamy.
Euphemisms reveal prejudice and stigma. If you assume using the word "fat" about a baby is insulting (ignoring all the posts about how cute and healthy that is) it shows massive stigmatisation.

I wish mine had more fat. I have the maternal worry she's not eating enough because she's long and thin looking (for a baby).

lozza mine had arms and legs like that! Like you had put elastic bands round them! Love it! Gorgeous baby!

Here's my chubby one the day he was born - he was 11lb 3oz at birth and didn't stop growing!

These babies are so gorgeous Fat babies / thin babies / round babies / long babies - they're all lovely, especially when they smile! There's no "ideal" body shape at that age. They just need to be healthy and happy in order to be absolutely adorable!

I was going to suggest Toby Tiger but someone beat me to it. Their sleepsuits are lovely for daywear- still have my 10 month old DD in them. She is also divinely pot of belly and creased of arm. Loving all the squidgy babies on here!

My DD was 10lbs at birth, and is huge - tall, fat (yummy) and a huge head. She's absolutely lovely, and I wouldn't have her any other way. She weighs a ton, which has knackered my back, though.

I do smile wryly when people ask how old she is, and I tell them, and they say 'but she's HUGE' without stopping to think, then try and backtrack. She is huge. She's taller than a lot of 2 year olds (nearly 14mo). It's not a bad thing!

Boots Miniclub, Next, George and H&M are my staple places - H&M do ace joggers in nice colours, and their leggings fit her for ages. I've learned to ignore sizes, and only go by holding stuff up against her, or length if they list it.

OP, your baby is lush, as are all the others pictured. Mmmmmmmmmmmm. Lush.

Nothing wrong with calling a baby fat surely?? DS is lovely and fat. Those H&M leggings with a soft high waistband are the best and have an added bonus of having feet so you don't have sock dramas. You could put a smock dress over the top?

Oh my gosh, Toby Tiger is expensive! £24 for two pairs of leggings and £22 for a T-shirt! The clothes are lovely though... might need to scour the nearly new sales for some of these :)

Try ebay and they crop up on Zulilly sometimes.
I love the bright colours.

Aren't your babies gorgeous I've got an uber slim and tall dd lucky lady, deffo following her daddy
H n m and peacocks have brilliant soft high waistbands