“If children over-eat as babies, it could boost their fat hormones in the long term, regardless of their adult diets, a Melbourne study has found over-nourishment from a young age had long-lasting effects on hormones made in fat.” Fat babies grow up to be fat adults, TODAYonline

“A Chubby baby has been seen for years as the epitome of good health, but new research on the way children grow is set to overturn the belief that big is beautiful.” Why big babies are not so healthy, The Observer

Just as I thought my kid is getting thinner and want to fatten her a bit, the researcher said that big is not necessarily beautiful and might have big impact on their body weight. So the bean poles might be the one having the ideal weight after all.

Are formula fed babies generally bigger? But I have seen equally huge and chubby breastfed babies everywhere. What about overfeeding with breastmilk? I have to control the intake also? I was formula fed, but I was perpetually underweight. What if I was breastfed, maybe I would be so thin the wind would have blown me away.

I remembered the days when nurses came to school and said I was too skinny and had to go to the polyclinics to get those little yellow tablets as supplements. I took those pills for a few years and had no effect at all. The nurses should have just certified me healthy and spared my parents of those worrying agonies about my weight.