10-month-old baby: 41 pounds and growing? Couple continues to feed obese baby

A 10-month-old baby from India is tipping the scales at 41 pounds, shocking her parents who have already lost one child to rapid weight gain. The obese baby girl was born with an average weight, but has been going through sets of clothes every two weeks because her body is expanding at such an alarming degree. Her parents said they lack the funds needed for any medical treatments – though doctors have yet to determine the cause of this baby’s weight gain.

Writes GrowingYourBaby.com on March 4: “Mohammad Saleem and Shabana Parveen have already lost one child due to rapid and excessive weight gain. Now they fear they will lose their 10-month-old daughter, Aliya Saleem to the very same issues. Aliya was born at nine pounds, but started to rapidly gain weight starting at the age of four months. Now ten months old, she weighs more than 40 pounds—the same weight as an average six-year-old girl.”

From birth to four months, Aliya put on over two dozen pounds. At 41 pounds and growing, she’s considered one of the heaviest children in the world for her age.

Aliya’s mother, 25-year-old Shabana Parveen said: “A few months after her birth, she starting gaining weight. We had to buy her a new pair of clothes every two weeks because the old ones become too tight for her.”

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