She is only 2 months old, and she looks like she is 6 months. My step-mother in-law watched her for 6 hours one day and she left her to cry herself to sleep, because she said that she doesn’t need to be held all the time. She is only two months old, she was crying for a reason. With children most people relate size to age, I learned that I can not trust her anymore with my daughter and that I have to remind people of her age. If I neglect to do so they treat her as though she was older. And I agree the diet thing is completely wrong. If I do not feed my daughter more than other children, her body takes in so much of what I give her, she struggles with constipation. If the child looks healthy for his size then there should be no problem. It is really hard to even say a baby is over weight. Over weight for a baby is where they can not hold up their own weight because of being so large. Which if you struggle to hold him down for a hair cut he can definitely hold himself up. The only thing that I can suggest is to let him eat often to keep up his metabolism, and make sure he doesn’t eat full meals each time he eats. It should be snack time size. He will eat more while the eating habits promote muscle development. Good Luck, on everything. I am learning to figure out how to manage how people react to my daughter, but I just wonder why everyone still forgets how old their own granddaughter/niece/cousin is and treat her differently because of her size. I can see complete strangers doing that, but family.

Mine is at the other end of the spectrum — just barely on the bottom of those damn charts — so I think about this issue a lot. It seems like tall people are favored once they’re grown but disfavored as kids. I think my son gets some leeway because people assume he’s much younger than he is, but I worry about what will happen when he’s an adult. People have already asked me if we’ll do growth hormone therapy on him — and I’m like, of COURSE not!! … um … unless he’s going to be FREAKISHLY short … which is how short, exactly? Ugh. I try not to talk about his size in front of him, but I feel like I can’t help it when people are amazed that he’s doing something that seems too advanced for him. I can imagine that when a kid is really big, you have the opposite problem; you don’t want him to feel strange about it, but you also want everyone to know that he’s a BABY, dammit, so treat him like one.

And yeah, that diet comment was really weird.