Obese 8-Month-Old Baby Tips the Scale at Over 40 Pounds

Doctors in Colombia have put a 40 pound, 8-month-old baby boy on a strict diet. Baby Santiago from Codazzi, Columbia was born with a normal weight but has grown to over 40 pounds in the last seven months. He was born weighing seven pounds and four ounces and now is a heaping 41 pounds.

The obese child’s parents say that he started gaining extra weight when he was only one-month-old. He is nursed by his mother over 20 times a day because he feels hungry, however due to his great size he cannot stand or crawl.

Doctors have not found anything medically wrong with the child, he has simply been overfed. The goal of these doctors is to try to reduce the child’s weight down to about 17 pounds. They have stepped in and are taking baby Santiago off formula in exchange for vegetables and juice.

This baby is reminiscent of the toddler from Saudi Arabia who was morbidly obese by two-years-old. This “little”boy broke the record as the youngest person to ever receive gastric … click HERE to continue reading