The baby just needs to eat less and move more. Forget breast milk, it's full of saturated fat! Here, use this formula made in a lab.

Bathia_Mapes: Not really surprising once you find out she had been diagnosed with gestational diabetes.

I didn't even RTFA, and I came in here to say this.

He'll fry up nicely.

"We are from Gomulak."

Evil Mackerel: He'll fry up nicely.

Just make sure to drain him well on paper towels.

Driving Without Pants: Bathia_Mapes: Not really surprising once you find out she had been diagnosed with gestational diabetes.

I didn't even RTFA, and I came in here to say this.

It could have been completely avoided had the woman stopped eating candy bars for breakfast. Seriously though, it's perfectly manageable with diet.

Dang. My 5 month old just hit 17 lbs yesterday, and I thought HE was a little chubster.

TFA is useless without pics of the parents.

No, not that covered-up hospital shot. I need girth shots. So I know how superior and condescending I should be.

Cue the chunky kid eating fries pic..like always.

Koalaesq: Dang. My 5 month old just hit 17 lbs yesterday, and I thought HE was a little chubster.

He looars that fat when he gains height. Mine was a "healthy baby" and did the same thing till about 8 months or so. He's presently a hair lighter and shorter than the average 4 year old according to the docs. But then again, I didn't get above 5' 100lbs till highschool

That's not a baby, that's a tumor.

Gomulak? Really?

gross.

Primum non nocere: That wasn't gestational diabetes at 7 wks of gestation. That was just outright diabetes. The placenta doesn't begin inducing its potentially diabetogenic effects until the late 2nd trimester. That's why the 50 gram Glucola screening is not performed before 24-28 weeks. Before that gestational age, is just plain ol' diabetes.

The patient never achieved good glycemic control for the entirety of her pregnancy. Hopefully the infant has no congenital anomalies (birth defects) b/c the patient clearly had poor glycemic control as early as 7 weeks when organ formation is at its most sensitive to metabolic disruptions.

Oh but didn't you read? It must be something in the water where she works. She had NO CONTROL over how big the baby got.

Every time I read one of these articles, I want to see an explanation from the mother about why the hell she didn't do a better job of taking care of herself. Something like - I followed all the eating guidelines the doctors gave me, and we really fought to keep the gd under control. I was testing my blood sugar every two hours - but the baby still grew this large, despite our very best efforts . . .

But, nah, 'I had no control! He's so big, isn't it cute?' is a much better article. Grrrr.

Doctors talked about inducing early delivery, she said, but decided it was better to allow the baby's lungs to develop.

Yikes! Good call, docs?

Was she Turkish?

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Turkish women are famous for the size of their babies. The only happy newborn ever to weigh over twenty-four pounds upon entrance was the product of a southern Turkish union. Turkish hospital records list a total of eleven children who weighed over twenty pounds at birth. And 95 more who weighed between fifteen and twenty. Now, all of these 106 cherubs did what babies usually do at birth: they lost three or four ounces and it took them the better part of a week before they got it totally back. More accurately, 105 of them lost weight just after they were born.

Not Fezzik.

His first afternoon he gained a pound. (Since he weighed but fifteen and since his mother gave birth two weeks early, the doctors weren't unduly concerned. "It's because you came two weeks too soon," they explained to Fezzik's mother. "That explains it." Actually, of course, it didn't explain anything, but whenever doctors are confused about something, which is really more frequently than aany of us would do well to think about, they always snatch at something in the vicinity of the case and add, "That explains it." If Fezzik's mother had come late, they would have said, "Well, you came late, that explains it." Or "Well, it was raining during delivery, this added weight is simply moisture, that explains it.")

A healthy baby doubles his birth weight in about six months and triples it in a year. When Fezzik was a year old, he weighed eighty-five pounds. He wasn't fat, understand. He looked like a perfectly normal, strong, eighty-five-pound kid. Not all that normal, actually. He was pretty hairy for a one year old.

I was 13 3/4 lbs at birth and was in perfect health.

macross87: Koalaesq: Dang. My 5 month old just hit 17 lbs yesterday, and I thought HE was a little chubster.

He looars that fat when he gains height. Mine was a "healthy baby" and did the same thing till about 8 months or so. He's presently a hair lighter and shorter than the average 4 year old according to the docs. But then again, I didn't get above 5' 100lbs till highschool

Mine will be 3 months tomorrow, and he's just under 15. He was about 7 lbs, 5 oz at birth, and the kid just eats and eats and eats. Mainly breast milk, but we had to start supplementing with formula, as mom just couldn't keep up.

"Now he's as healthy as a horse," Calistro said.
...apparently a Clydesdale

Virtual Planetoid.

namegoeshere: TFA is useless without pics of the parents.

No, not that covered-up hospital shot. I need girth shots. So I know how superior and condescending I should be.

Why do you need pictures for that? This is Fark after all. Condescension should just be a natural reflex for you by now.

i would love to be at some royal event when they are announced as mentioned in the article:
Gomulak of Superior and Carol Calistro of Coon Rapids

/might be my new band name

I can't imagine such a large thing coming out of my vagina.

Gina and Scott had been expecting a big baby. She was diagnosed with gestational diabetes at seven weeks, and she knew because of that condition the baby probably would grow quickly.

So they just sat back and let it happen? Can someone take this Doctor's license away? It's not that hard to cut back on carbs for a few months, if my wife could do it anyone can.

RedEmily: I can't imagine such a large thing coming out of my vagina.

I've got the internet, so I can.

DubyaHater: namegoeshere: TFA is useless without pics of the parents.

No, not that covered-up hospital shot. I need girth shots. So I know how superior and condescending I should be.

Why do you need pictures for that? This is Fark after all. Condescension should just be a natural reflex for you by now.

True, that. The struggle comes when two Fark interests colide as is the case here. Fark loves boobies. Yet as this is Fark, and everyone on Fark is thin and fit and therefore highly superior to everyone else, I am tempted to say to the humungobabby, "Put down the fork boob, Fattie!" See the conundrum? It's like dividing by zero.

/kidding
//doesn't really believe this

My wife was 98lbs when she got preggy and had to c-section a 11 lb 13.2 oz boy. she was big and he was huge..I can't imagine another 3-4 pounds on the baby.
Wife did not have diabetes...just ate alot.

I think this is the same woman:

My vote is general diabetes too . . .

"I don't know if it's something in the water or what," Calistro said.

Yeah, all the HFCS in the 2 liter bottles of soda you're polishing off every 20 minutes

zez: "I don't know if it's something in the water or what," Calistro said.

Yeah, all the HFCS in the 2 liter bottles of soda you're polishing off every 20 minutes

Although, that was the kicker that started my labor. I don't think I drank soda before that night , while pregnant, and lo, the next day there was a baby. Hello world! Gained 15 lbs total, whole pregnancy. Docs were mad at me. Left the hospital 24 hours latter, carrying baby, heavier than I went in. How the hell does that happen? >:(

IXI Jim IXI: RedEmily: I can't imagine such a large thing coming out of my vagina.

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Summon yammering splat vector to the babby thread

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Came for that!!!

I am so happy I have a penis!!

How is fatty formed?

RedEmily: I can't imagine such a large thing coming out of my vagina.

How about coming into it?