Doctor said infant is obese?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe how derailed this thread is. The baby is two months old!! Both my kids were chunky their first year, top weight percentiles. DS is a skinny four year old who can't keep his pants up (he was 15 lbs at two months) and dd is a slender almost 2-year old.

Op, sorry this thread got so weird. I think the ped was off base, I don't think there's any study showing a correlation between weight at 2m and later issues.

Did you go to medical school or are you just making your opinion based on your 2 kids?

Oh, STFU.

I'm so glad I got a rise out of you. My job is done for today. Have a great weekend and have a drink to relax.

For the record, that was a second person telling you to stfu. I'm the original quoted pp, not the stfu poster. And for whatever its worth, idiot posters like you drive away people looking for reasonable and intelligent conversations on this site. Glad you're happy to be frustrating and annoying. I'm sure you're just a treat in real life.

[Anonymous]

OP,

1. 16lbs for a 2 month old is off the chart (>99%) whatever the height, and cause for serious concern. What did the doctor recommend to the parents, and is the child being followed by a nutritionist or has he been evaluated by other specialists?

2. you need to get your medical terms correct: Obesity means an adult/teen BMI greater than 30. Overweight means an adult/teen BMI between 25 and 29.9. BMI in very young children is not an effective tool to diagnose health issues, and "obese" and "overweight" are not used by doctors to describe infants. HOWEVER this child is far too heavy - there may be an underlying metabolic disease, or he may simply be eating too much.


PS: do not divulge you're a nanny on this site unless talking specifically about your relationship with your employers or your career, because many people will automatically think less of you, and also tell you to MYOB - sad, I know, given you're taking care of this child!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
OP,

1. 16lbs for a 2 month old is off the chart (>99%) whatever the height, and cause for serious concern. What did the doctor recommend to the parents, and is the child being followed by a nutritionist or has he been evaluated by other specialists?

2. you need to get your medical terms correct: Obesity means an adult/teen BMI greater than 30. Overweight means an adult/teen BMI between 25 and 29.9. BMI in very young children is not an effective tool to diagnose health issues, and "obese" and "overweight" are not used by doctors to describe infants. HOWEVER this child is far too heavy - there may be an underlying metabolic disease, or he may simply be eating too much.


PS: do not divulge you're a nanny on this site unless talking specifically about your relationship with your employers or your career, because many people will automatically think less of you, and also tell you to MYOB - sad, I know, given you're taking care of this child!

I think your first point is a bit alarmist. My ds was over 15 lbs at 2 months, and there was no alarm. He was big at birth (over 11lbs), and the ped was fine with his growth. He was top of the charts for height and weight his first year, now he's 95th for height and 60th for weight. Someone has to be at the top of the chart, and it is not an automatic cause for alarm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
OP,

1. 16lbs for a 2 month old is off the chart (>99%) whatever the height, and cause for serious concern. What did the doctor recommend to the parents, and is the child being followed by a nutritionist or has he been evaluated by other specialists?

2. you need to get your medical terms correct: Obesity means an adult/teen BMI greater than 30. Overweight means an adult/teen BMI between 25 and 29.9. BMI in very young children is not an effective tool to diagnose health issues, and "obese" and "overweight" are not used by doctors to describe infants. HOWEVER this child is far too heavy - there may be an underlying metabolic disease, or he may simply be eating too much.


PS: do not divulge you're a nanny on this site unless talking specifically about your relationship with your employers or your career, because many people will automatically think less of you, and also tell you to MYOB - sad, I know, given you're taking care of this child!

I think your first point is a bit alarmist. My ds was over 15 lbs at 2 months, and there was no alarm. He was big at birth (over 11lbs), and the ped was fine with his growth. He was top of the charts for height and weight his first year, now he's 95th for height and 60th for weight. Someone has to be at the top of the chart, and it is not an automatic cause for alarm.

Actually, in a country with an obesity epidemic, being at the top of any chart for weight is cause for alarm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
OP,

1. 16lbs for a 2 month old is off the chart (>99%) whatever the height, and cause for serious concern. What did the doctor recommend to the parents, and is the child being followed by a nutritionist or has he been evaluated by other specialists?

2. you need to get your medical terms correct: Obesity means an adult/teen BMI greater than 30. Overweight means an adult/teen BMI between 25 and 29.9. BMI in very young children is not an effective tool to diagnose health issues, and "obese" and "overweight" are not used by doctors to describe infants. HOWEVER this child is far too heavy - there may be an underlying metabolic disease, or he may simply be eating too much.


PS: do not divulge you're a nanny on this site unless talking specifically about your relationship with your employers or your career, because many people will automatically think less of you, and also tell you to MYOB - sad, I know, given you're taking care of this child!

I think your first point is a bit alarmist. My ds was over 15 lbs at 2 months, and there was no alarm. He was big at birth (over 11lbs), and the ped was fine with his growth. He was top of the charts for height and weight his first year, now he's 95th for height and 60th for weight. Someone has to be at the top of the chart, and it is not an automatic cause for alarm.

Actually, in a country with an obesity epidemic, being at the top of any chart for weight is cause for alarm.

Not at two months old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
OP,

1. 16lbs for a 2 month old is off the chart (>99%) whatever the height, and cause for serious concern. What did the doctor recommend to the parents, and is the child being followed by a nutritionist or has he been evaluated by other specialists?

2. you need to get your medical terms correct: Obesity means an adult/teen BMI greater than 30. Overweight means an adult/teen BMI between 25 and 29.9. BMI in very young children is not an effective tool to diagnose health issues, and "obese" and "overweight" are not used by doctors to describe infants. HOWEVER this child is far too heavy - there may be an underlying metabolic disease, or he may simply be eating too much.


PS: do not divulge you're a nanny on this site unless talking specifically about your relationship with your employers or your career, because many people will automatically think less of you, and also tell you to MYOB - sad, I know, given you're taking care of this child!

Great points.

[Anonymous]

Op here.

I will try to address all points brought up.

-I am a 24 hr nanny. The parents rarely ask or know what is going on. The mom comes home very late but still pumps enough milk at home and during the day and she leaves it in the fridge.
- the doctor said as soon as he came in the room, "Larla is quite overweight. Just about obese. What's has she been eating?"
I told him that the baby is breast milk fed but with a bottle. The doctor just continued saying how the baby is much too overweight and we shod consider removing 2 feedings per day so that she will thin out.
- I know my opinion is invalid but I feel that once babies have a growth spurt and start moving more, they thin out naturally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here.

I will try to address all points brought up.

-I am a 24 hr nanny. The parents rarely ask or know what is going on. The mom comes home very late but still pumps enough milk at home and during the day and she leaves it in the fridge.
- the doctor said as soon as he came in the room, "Larla is quite overweight. Just about obese. What's has she been eating?"
I told him that the baby is breast milk fed but with a bottle. The doctor just continued saying how the baby is much too overweight and we shod consider removing 2 feedings per day so that she will thin out.
- I know my opinion is invalid but I feel that once babies have a growth spurt and start moving more, they thin out naturally.

Are you in the US?

[Anonymous]

How is an infant supposed to follow a nutritionist's plan? Breast milk or formula on demand is the only reasonable advice.

Survival rates are positively affected by an infant's increasing weight.

[Anonymous]

Op here.

I will try to address all points brought up.

-I am a 24 hr nanny. The parents rarely ask or know what is going on. The mom comes home very late but still pumps enough milk at home and during the day and she leaves it in the fridge.
- the doctor said as soon as he came in the room, "Larla is quite overweight. Just about obese. What's has she been eating?"
I told him that the baby is breast milk fed but with a bottle. The doctor just continued saying how the baby is much too overweight and we shod consider removing 2 feedings per day so that she will thin out.
- I know my opinion is invalid but I feel that once babies have a growth spurt and start moving more, they thin out naturally.

DId the doctor ask how much/many oz the baby was eating? Maybe there is a metabolic issue, too.

on another note, I can't imagine being gone all the time from my 2 month old with a 24 hour nanny (not knocking you, nanny--but when mine were that age, I barely left them for an hour or two. And I was nursing all the time. Can't imagine how much the mom is pumping). are both parents working 24/7? weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here.

I will try to address all points brought up.

-I am a 24 hr nanny. The parents rarely ask or know what is going on. The mom comes home very late but still pumps enough milk at home and during the day and she leaves it in the fridge.
- the doctor said as soon as he came in the room, "Larla is quite overweight. Just about obese. What's has she been eating?"
I told him that the baby is breast milk fed but with a bottle. The doctor just continued saying how the baby is much too overweight and we shod consider removing 2 feedings per day so that she will thin out.
- I know my opinion is invalid but I feel that once babies have a growth spurt and start moving more, they thin out naturally.

I think I'd find a new ped the second they asked what I've been feeding a 2 month old.

[Anonymous]

If I were the kid, I think I'd find a new mommy. 24 hr nanny at 2 months? Damn. At least do a 3 month maternity leave before going back to work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I were the kid, I think I'd find a new mommy. 24 hr nanny at 2 months? Damn. At least do a 3 month maternity leave before going back to work.

Because the issue here clearly is that the mother is a bad mother, not whether or not it's even possible for a two-month-old infant to be obese.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here.

I will try to address all points brought up.

-I am a 24 hr nanny. The parents rarely ask or know what is going on. The mom comes home very late but still pumps enough milk at home and during the day and she leaves it in the fridge.
- the doctor said as soon as he came in the room, "Larla is quite overweight. Just about obese. What's has she been eating?"
I told him that the baby is breast milk fed but with a bottle. The doctor just continued saying how the baby is much too overweight and we shod consider removing 2 feedings per day so that she will thin out.
- I know my opinion is invalid but I feel that once babies have a growth spurt and start moving more, they thin out naturally.

The doctor is suggesting putting a two-month-old baby on a diet. Yikes.

[Anonymous]

I suspect that the doctor's comments were relayed by the mother and OP wasn't there. So maybe the doctor said something about chubbiness and the mother interpreted it as obesity. Lots of moms are neurotic about their kid's weight.