Here he is!!
Posted on 10/12/2009 3:54:58 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE
Nothing brings a smile to an adult's face quicker than the sight of a happy, chubby baby.
But the sight of 4-month-old Alex Lange, who measures 25-inches long and weighs 17 pounds, is bringing a frown to the hypothetical face of insurance company Rocky Mountain Health Plans, The Denver Post reported on its Web site Monday.
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Here come the stories.
You would think health insurance companies would try to be less stupid when legislation that would put them out of business is up for consideration.
Good point but its not really my problem if somebody else is denied coverage.
When I see a chubby baby, I think of chubby toddler, chubby young child, overweight young teen, overweight teen, heavy young adult, fat adult, and a shortened life.
Here he is!!
I would suspect they know something you don’t know about this “health care reform”.
> Good point but its not really my problem if somebody else is denied coverage.
“Am I my brother’s keeper?” — Cain.
All because of the child’s choices.
How caring of you.
Our little grandson was a VERY CHUBBY baby. He weighed about 25 lbs. at 1 year old..and kept getting bigger. We were concerned. His parents are tiny. In fact, my stepson is one of those guys who you look at and you can’t understand how all their vital organs can fit in such a small frame? Anyway, as he gets older and more active he’s getting more in line to kids his size. He has a brother (not my stepson’s child), who is a perfectly normal 10 year old. His mom says he was BIGGER than his brother..so I’m no longer worried. Sometimes these things just work themselves out.
Well then your thinking is wrong, and you should admit it. I hope your insurance company finds something wrong with you, however slight, to deny you coverage. Then you’ll be singing a different tune.
If you don’t think it’s your problem, you’re part of the problem.
No one is denied insurance - my daughter was denied going on to my less expensive plan due to volleyball injuries in HS and so they sent me a letter with a more expensive option that covers anyone and everyone.
A friend of my parents grandson was huge when he was “little”. They called him Moose because of his size. I saw Moose this last summer. He was a 6’ slender healthy 25 yr old. I think 4 mos is a little early to put them on a diet.
yeah Obama says that too, so?
My oldest son was larger than this baby at 4 months. At (just turned) five years old he is the tallest boy in his class and wears 6 slim pants.
His 4 month old brother weighed 10 lbs at birth, and is 26.5 inches and 18 lbs. I have every reason to believe he will be as tall, healthy, and slender as his brother at 5 and beyond.
I don’t. A chunky baby does not mean fat kid. A friend’s last two kids, a boy and girl, were two of the biggest babies I’ve ever seen. Now, at ages 3 and 7, they are skinny little rug rats. Must have been that breast milk. LOL.
Colo. insurer changes course on fat infants
(AP) – 1 hour ago
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hTm1p-cajzcmI2w_ROTot6L6lx8gD9B9PUO81
Boy, is he ever cute! He doesn’t look 4 months old, though.
Good grief. He’s not THAT fat. In a month or so...when he starts crawling.......he’ll burn it off quick. They just need to find an insurance company who lives in reality.
> yeah Obama says that too, so?
If that is so, it might be the first Godly thing Obama has ever said.
Plain fact is, if you believe in God then you believe that God’s lesson to Cain was correct: we are, in fact, our brother’s keepers. Therefore...
>>it’s not really my problem if somebody else is denied coverage.
God would seem to disagree.
And I see a big bruiser pounding the snot out of deserving idiots........
Chubby babies are very healthy and that extra fat is good for brain development plus most babies lose the fat once they start walking. It is completely untrue that fat babies = fat adults.
I agree. Perhaps this story happened when he WAS 4 mos. old, and now he’s nearly a year old?
Then why are you here on this thread?
100% correct. As a petite and slim 5”7’ gal, I had thighs bigger than Hillary when I was a baby.
I think 25lbs. is not too huge for a 1 yr. old. I have 2 nephews. One is 3 yrs. old and weighs about 25lbs.. He has a 1 yr. old brother who weighs 20lbs.. I think I have the nos. right. The 1 yr. old is in the 95th percentile for height and 60th percentile for weight. The 3yo is in the 10th for height and doesn’t even show up on the weight chart.
I know they’re supposed to triple their birth weight at 1yo.. So, if they weigh just shy of 9lbs. at birth, 25lbs. at 1 seems like a good wt.. My brother and sister-in-law were investigated by the state because of the first baby’s inability to gain wt.. I was also always a thin child, but as an adult, I’m a totally normal 5’6” 112lbs..
I was 33 lbs. at a year, a true rolley-polley if you ever saw one.
I grew into a skinny kid, a skinny young teen, a skinny young adult, and a skinny adult.
At 5'9", I weighed a whopping 132 lbs. on my wedding day.
Sixteen years later, I weigh 148 lbs, but having a few kids and the onset of menopause will do that to you.
Plain fact is, if you believe in God then you believe that God’s lesson to Cain was correct: we are, in fact, our brother’s keepers. Therefore...
>>it’s not really my problem if somebody else is denied coverage.
God would seem to disagree.
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Agreed.
These folks weren’t demanding a gov’t hand out or some gov’t program, they were trying to do the right thing in the private sector.
Gov’t programs have bureaucrats who screw things up but private sector has the same. And they are as arrogant and unconcerned as any gov’t worker ever was.
Reform is needed. We should get ahead of this and be more of a voice in shaping the plan.
Funny ... when I see a chubby baby, I see a little kid. I don't spend my time on stupid speculations that will most likely be wrong.
God doesn’t authorize the us government to mandate I pay for this coverage.
The new testament is all about charity which if voluntary.
I used to know a little girl who was about as pretty as they come. She was petite, five feet tall and weighed 100 lbs.
One day I looked at her birth certificate and was surprised that she weighed over 9 lbs. at birth. Not a huge baby but really large considering how small she grew up to be.
Each of my twins were 20 pounds at six Months. At 18 years they are very tall and healthy. My son would get fat, then shoot up and get get skinny. Over and over.
What a doll!
He’s just big-boned.
Especially if the child is only getting breastmilk.
Obama’s brother lives in a hut.
Interesting; I am hearing from all those that were former chubby kids that grew up slim and I am not hearing from all those that were former chubby kids that grew up to be overweight adults....
I was a former chubby - okay, "husky" or "solid" - all my life, grew up into a consistently 25 lbs. too fat adult, got way fatter during the baby years, and finally decided through exercise and eating less to lose it. I'm now not overweight at age 46.
How's that?
Perhaps the former is far more common than the latter.
You don't look overweight, you look great!
I figure as long as my husband still thinks I'm sexy, that all that matters.
5’6” 112? I hope you’re a female..that’s very thin...
UN-STINKIN-REAL!!!!!!!!
Maybe so, but the parents have a good point.
He’s breastfed. How are they going to get him to lose weight?
> God doesn’t authorize the us government to mandate I pay for this coverage.
> The new testament is all about charity which if voluntary.
True, but that isn’t what you said:
>> it’s not really my problem if somebody else is denied coverage.
And “Charity” is perhaps not as “voluntary” as you might think. For those who want to escape hellfire, Charity is actually a way of life. Refer Matt 25:31-46:
31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
I am. It is, but that’s the way it is. I run 3mi/day, 5 days/week and weight train 2 days. My body wants to be 112lbs. I read once in Tennis magazine that a woman should be 100lbs. for the first 5ft. of height and either 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5lbs. for every inch of ht. past that, depending of bone frame. For my frame, 2lbs. is good. I am thin, but I do most definitely still look like a woman and am at 17% body fat. I read a fitness blog where all the women (ages late teens through late 60s) are all into ‘eating clean’ and ‘lifting heavy’. It’s weird to me that they all strive to be at 10 and 12% body fat. It takes 14% to menstruate, 17% to nurture a pregnancy. I don’t think it’s healthy or wise to strive for such low nos.. But there’s no talking to the fitness fiends.
Babies are supposed to be fat for their brain development, but if a kid doesn’t gain wt. and his drs. determine that his hormone profiles are normal, then what can the parents do? On the flip side, if a 4 mo. old is a chunky, little monkey, I don’t think his parents ought to be penalized.
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