On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Renee Drake wrote:
> Ok...another incidental story...One mom in my LLL group has a baby boy
> who at the ripe old age of 9 mos weighed over 30 pounds and wore size 4t
> clothes. 100% breastfed. I don't know his previous official weights,
> but even now at not quite 2 yrs of age is still the exact same weight
> (over 30 pounds). He eats reg foods and is still nursing. He was/is a
> huge little guy. I have NEVER seen legs like that on a baby
> before...and boy, you could resist kissing those chunky cheeks. Now he
> is thinning out...which is a natural progression. We joke with the mom
> about her SUPER milk. (in fact she donated a few bottles for my
> daughter when we were trying to desperately figure out her issues--you
> should have seen the fat layer on that stuff lol)
This sounds a lot like my Trevor. We used to call him the Prince of
Perpetual Nursing, and I was the Queen of Abundant Hindmilk. ;) He was
quite rolypoly (see http://www.kjsl.com/~cee/Fatbaby.jpg for a picture of
him at 7 months and 27 lbs). By the time he was a year old, he weighed
just 28 lbs... at two, 29.5 lbs... at three, 30.25 lbs. He just kept
getting taller and taller and thinner and thinner. Now, at almost 13, he
is 5'3" and barely 100 lbs (see
http://skylane.kjsl.com/~cee/trev061105.jpg).
I do think there could be some overfeeding going on with a baby being
given breastmilk in a bottle. I don't discount the possibility that this
was the case with Trevor, who was in daycare 9-5 from the time he was 10
weeks old and being fed my milk by bottle or sippy cup by the lovely
ladies who cared for him. I nursed him at lunchtime and, of course, all
the time when we were together. But he still drank a LOT of expressed
milk during the day. And, even before I went back to work, he was a
voracious nurser - went from 8/9 at birth to 10/6 at 3 weeks old. After I
went back to work, when we were home on weekends, he nursed an awful lot
during the day, evenings, throughout the night, etc. The boy never slept
through the night without nursing until he was 2.5 years old... so maybe
he was destined to be a fat baby no matter what.
I just don't worry much about obesity in breastfed babies now that I see
how slim my fat little butterball has become!
Cee
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