Get up on the wrong side of the bed today Max?
This is like the "first baby born this year" stories run by big-city papers and the kid is almost always illegitimate. Heartwarming.
Paula, I think our Max needs some special eggnog this morning. Could you put on your fishnets and deliver him a batch?
OUCH!! But that is not a good thing for the kid. Hopefully the kid will lose some of the weight. Also having large kids could mean diabetes for the mother.
Lions could use a new offensive lineman...
Merry Christmas to you too Mr. Wonderful.
The kid will be a normal healthy size.
Do you think he is even gonna have a chance at the dinner table with those two?
A) They didn't strike me as all that obese. B) It gets TV coverage because its' very unusual, and it beats stoning them to death in the town square. C) Got proof that either the parents or the child are unhealthy or will overly ~drain~ the health care system?
It's so sad; I see tubby little kids walking around and I wonder how the parents can just stand by and watch their baby eat himself to death. Don't they care? In the information age, 'ignorance' about eating healthy is not a valid excuse.
Basically, you saw some fat people on TV this morning and thought you'd complain?
My father claims he was 12 pounds at birth. He was 6'2" and normal weight, actually, a bit underweight. My second born was 9 pounds, 9 1/2 oz at birth. He doubled his weight in three months and was 30 pounds at one year. He is now 5'11" and maybe 155 pounds.
Global Warming!!!!
Bush's Fault!!!!
Hormone Beef!!!!!
Bird Fru!
I was only 8 pounds and change, but the doctor was using a split bamboo fly rod with 4 pound test, so I made it into the recod books anyway.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/21/earlyshow/living/parenting/main1150910.shtml
Too bad it's a girl. If it was a boy the Sooners would have ready made lineman in 17-18 years.
My brother was 11.5 pounds. He's now 5-11 and regular weight. I was 6 pounds. My mom was 5-2 and weighed around 110.
And the babies parents were large. The father was overweight and the mother was probably obese.
YIKES! I hope that was a C-section.
14 pounds?
That's not a baby, that's a Butterball turkey!
A baby's birth weight oftentimes has NOTHING to do with future size. Genetics play a big part in FUTURE size, and if the parents are obese, the child may end up being that way also (genetic predisposition as well as environmental factors).
You really shouldn't prejudge this; it could be that the baby is LGA/IDM-large for gestational age and infant of diabetic mother.