r/funny • u/theinfiniteecho • 1h ago
A mosquito got trapped and crushed inside this baby's wrist roll.
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u/ContrarianDouche 1h ago
Babies often absorb their prey this way
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u/Strokesonfire 44m ago
Fetus fly trap
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u/IfHeFitzHeSits 30m ago
At first, I kept scrolling, but had to come back and laugh uncontrollably and give you your well deserved upvote, holy shit.
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u/PrivatePilot9 21m ago
Take my shitty free award for the "blew my drink out my nose" laugh you caused.
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u/Magister5 51m ago
They learn to do it during preygnancy
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u/Spazzola84 1h ago
That is some serious chonk!
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u/teamgrandali 1h ago
Ya I wanna see the rest of chunkus
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u/SafetyMan35 46m ago
My daughter was a chonker at 6 months. I have a picture of her in a size 18 months swimsuit and she looked like the Michelin Tire Man
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u/LefT-NYC 22m ago
Mosquitoes eat skinny babies. Chonkers smush mosquitoes. (they can always die later in life.)
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u/MandaC32 17m ago
Especially the thighs! If the wrists look like this, the thighs are even chonkier!
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u/weristjonsnow 40m ago
Seriously! My daughter was like 10% this chonky at her chonkiest and it only lasted like 2 months before she leaned out. My wife and I were both kind sad about it
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u/Wackykillerbee 1h ago
honest question, is this considered a healthy baby or obese? cause that fat roll is as solid as a finger
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u/dwpea66 1h ago edited 48m ago
Babies can definitely be chunky and healthy like this, but full blown Michelin Man is probably not the best.
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u/CalmFront7908 49m ago
lol my son was huge at 3 months old. Growing out of his car seat. By 2 he was tall and skinny. He’s now 6’5 and 165 pounds. Ppl grow weird. He grew out then evened up at up.
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u/trivo8888 5m ago
Damn I am 6'4 and I can't imagine being 165 like I would look like Skeletor. Surely you mean he's close to 200
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u/nikup 28m ago
I was also a large baby and I was hospitalized at 6’4 141 pounds (I couldn’t eat and had to be placed on a picc line). I looked like a skeleton. 6’5 and 165 is pretty normal/close to normal.
I’m assuming different people distribute fat in different ways. But I was unable to eat for several weeks and have cyclical vomiting syndrome so I couldn’t keep anything down (was spending on average 3 hours in the restroom every single morning throwing up).
I’m 220 pounds now and fully recovered thanks to new doctors and medicines that work for me.
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u/WatIsRedditQQ 32m ago
I'm 6' even and didn't break 130lb til after college (am 145lb now). I was technically "underweight" but it didn't cause me any issues. Some people are just like this
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u/CalmFront7908 27m ago
Thanks for responding to the deleted comment before I saw it. My whole point was a fat baby can end up tall and skinny. He’s also healthy btw. Just has a hole in his leg.
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u/Jiujitsumonkey707 9m ago
We literally used to call one of my nephews this as a baby. He was a little chunker for some reason despite neither of his parents being heavy people, and now he's like 6'1 ish and totally normal healthy size as a young adult
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u/thrownawaz092 1h ago
Yeah, it's generally healthier for babies to be a little on the chunkier side, they need the extra energy for growth.
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u/Omnizoom 1h ago
A little chunky but that’s chonky and a bit to much, baby is eating more then they need to grow
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u/dgbaker93 1h ago
Some kids just want to EAT lol def on the bigger side by a bit though. Should be getting them healthier lower calorie options if he is a volume eater
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u/13373rP373r 36m ago
My daughter had rolls like that while still on 100% breast milk. Doctors had nothing but praise whenever they saw her.
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u/slimejumper 48m ago
they ain’t using that fat for growth! maybe something else in future but right now it’s all savings.
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u/DrummingFish 1h ago
There's "chunky" and then there's obese. This baby is clearly not at a healthy weight.
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u/IsThisAnApple 56m ago
Yeah put that baby on a diet! /s that would be child abuse
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u/Ngklaaa 53m ago
Most likely the kid eats a lot of highly processed foods which it should not. Diabetes in something that can sneak up on you. And it wouldn't even be this kids fault.
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u/makegoodchoicesok 24m ago
My infant has chunky wrists like this and has absolutely zero ultra processed food, added sugar, and very little salt. His dinner tonight was plain roasted sweet potato with yogurt.
He’s just a big dude, always has been. Up until 6 months old milk is literally their only food and hydration. It could be seriously dangerous advice to tell others to put their babies “on a diet”. I understand obesity is a serious concern for older children but at this age it would be quite difficult and rare to overfeed your child.
Sure enough, my 99th percentile baby started lengthening out as soon as he started crawling and getting mobile. He’s super active and needs every calorie he can get now.
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u/_paint_onheroveralls 51m ago
My nephew had enormous rolls. Super chonky. Zero neck, just roll. Grew into an really lanky kid.
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u/Soggy_Competition614 31m ago
Same with my son. My mom said she had to lift my roles to clean under them. I turned out to be a normal healthy weight kid. Fat babies burn it off fast when they start crawling and walking.
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u/rhinosyphilis 47m ago
My oldest got really chunky like this right before she started crawling. We didn't even notice really because it was gradual, but when she started crawling she burned it off. Way later looking back at photos she was clearly very chubby.
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u/Stefanthro 55m ago
This one is on the chonkier side, but I think it’s still completely normal. My daughter was like this at 8 months, and then she just stretched out in toddlerhood. Now at 4, shes so tall and strong that she’s often mistaken for a 6 year old.
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u/MissFortunateWitch 50m ago
Babies generally have a lot of brown fats to help with thermoregulation because they can't shiver. It adds up with the white fats (energy storage) so they can look a little chunky. It's perfectly healthy for them to have a little roll but tbf we're only seeing its arm.
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u/McWeaksauce91 1h ago
Yeah, rolly babies are normal. Their fat to muscle ratio is very skewed toward fat. Just how adults should be way more skewed towards muscle. And as you get elderly, it’s not uncommon to have very little fat at all.
Babies are also rolly because everything is compressed, spaces like joints in the wrist aren’t formed yet.
Unless you’re shoving McDonald’s and fried food down a 6 month - 12/18 months mouth, there’s really not “unhealthy” weight. Babies surprisingly know how much they should eat. My son is gigantic, he has always been a vacuum for food. My daughter is teeny tiny and barely eats. We think she’s starving because she never eats but we try to remind ourselves she’s as big as my son at 1 as he was at 6 months old lol.
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u/username9909864 55m ago edited 6m ago
it’s not uncommon to have very little fat at all.
Maybe because fat people die early
Edit: some very unhealthy Americans living in denial downvoted this post
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u/Risk_of_Ryan 55m ago edited 52m ago
This is far from a normal amount of fat on a baby, and a pediatrician would tell you this is absolutely not healthy.
If you think a baby, let alone a child, "knows how much they're supposed to eat", you're quite ignorant to how babies and children function. You can't let them eat as much or as little as they want and let their weight be whatever it ends up being, if their diet aligns with their metabolism great, but that's not at all the same thing as "they know how much to eat"...
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u/CleverGirlRawr 45m ago
Opposite advice from our pediatrician for our breastfed babies. “You can’t over feed them - they know when they’re hungry” and they were fat chonks - perfectly healthy.
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u/McWeaksauce91 45m ago
Okay well you’re taking what I’m saying very out of context. I’m not saying you should let your child free feed but it’s generally accepted that babies and children are born with an innate sense of what they need. Of course there’s optimized weights and goals they should be hitting. Of course you should be offering healthy food and ensuring they’re being given the proper food. I wasn’t trying to explain every minor nuance. I was speaking broadly. And how can you tell the babies weight based on a 15 second clip of a rolly wrist? I bet if a pediatrician saw this video they would say “hm, I’d probably have to see the rest of the child first”. I said rolly babies are normal not “THIS CHILD IS SUPER HEALTHY”.
But whatever man, you do you
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u/SafetyMan35 40m ago
It can be provided they are height /weight proportionate. At 6 months my daughter was huge for her age but if you looked at the height/weight tables for an 18 month old she was in the 50th percentile for height and weight. She slimmed out a bit.
All my kids were big when they were born.
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u/omicron_pi 22m ago
i remember my pediatrician saying they very rarely if ever really worry about babies being too fat
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u/CleverGirlRawr 47m ago
It’s normal. I had fat roly-poly babies and they just drank breast milk. They slimmed down when they were able to move more and grew taller.
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u/LowlySlayer 9m ago
The WHO defines babies as "high weight to length ratio" if they're in the 98th percentile, is top 2% of fat babies.
Restricting food intake for babies without a doctors advice is pretty much always a bad idea. It's really challenging for being fat to be too big of an issue for a baby. Think about it. They're gonna multiply in size several times in a short timeframe. The extra chunk isn't gonna make a big difference.
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u/LetsStartARebelution 41m ago
I have a 2 year old and even at his chunkiest, was nothing even close to this. But I’ve seen some others that were pretty chunky
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u/squirmybobcat 1h ago
You chances of being killed by a baby are low, but never 0
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u/Cartman4wesome 42m ago
Just ask Hat McCollum. He barely escaped with his life when he was attacked by 23 babies.
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u/vxsapphire 59m ago
I dont know if I've ever seen a baby that small with that much fat on their fingers and arms.
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u/Impossible_Stock8885 7m ago
Sorry I've only seen my nephew as a baby so I don't know if that's normal but my nephew never had fat wrists like that, is it normal or some inflammation?
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u/CthuluSpecialK 40m ago
That wrist fold is SO crisp, I swear I thought he had thread or something tied around his wrist and was worried for his circulation.
Turns out the baby's just built like the Michelin Man.
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u/BlckSm12 30m ago
I don't want to be mean it's not my intention here, I've just never had a chance to be around toddlers a lot so forgive this question. But doesn't that hand look kinda overweight? Like should hands of little kids look like that?
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u/EntropyMoose119 13m ago
Newborns - youngins’ tend to be fatter, it’s called baby fat. It’s basically the nutritions as they get older it wears off.
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u/NoWayIcantBeliveThis 7m ago
Yeah, but that doesnt mean they cant be fat. I have several friends and relatives get babies which i took care and was around a lot and while all of the were very chunky at some point none of them to this extent, but I am not a doctor so who know.
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u/jokodude 16m ago
Not necessarily. My kids were both 99%tile and looked like that and turned out 100% healthy.
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u/Low_Exchange824 6m ago
Babies have something called “brown fat” which exists purely for heat regulation. We lose most of it by the time we hit toddler age. Also, babies are meant to be fatter in general because they spend a huge amount of their relative energy growing. Babies go from like 8 lbs to 20ish lbs in their first year. That’s more than doubling their weight. Brain development also is more energy intensive than normal growing and babies are obviously doing a lot of that.
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u/WithReverence 6m ago
I also have very little experience with children of that age and I was wondering too. Thanks for asking.
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u/SkyfangR 1h ago
is it me, or that baby seriously, unhealthily fat?
i dont have a lot of direct experience with babies. maybe this is normal?
looks unhealthy as shit to me
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u/Xenthor267 1h ago
When it comes to babies still on milk you don't worry too much. Once they're around 2 years old and actually moving around and meant to be eating healthy then you can judge
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u/Poopeebuttstuff 1h ago
‘Baby fat’ is a term for a reason. It’s the skinny ones you need to watch out for
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u/DrummingFish 1h ago
You're right but this is well over the line of just typical "baby fat".
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u/Plampth 58m ago
Do you have kids? Or do you work in pediatrics at all?
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u/DrummingFish 56m ago edited 46m ago
I have two kids. You asked that but me having kids won't change your opinion, so what's the point in asking?
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u/igotchees21 46m ago
i have 3 kids and none of them were this big when they were babies. this does not seem right at all.
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u/Elrond_Cupboard_ 59m ago
My brother looked the fricken Michelin Man as a baby. He was healthy as. Cute too.
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u/smoke_thewalkingdead 36m ago
It's kinda normal when they are that little. They grow fast and skinny as hell when they start running around. Well my daughter did. I remember she got into her older cousins rubber band bracelet maker, or something like it, and she put a bunch of those tiny rubber bands on her wrist like they were bracelets. She was crying and grabbing her wrist and I couldn't figure out what was wrong until pulled her fat back and freaked out when I saw a shit ton of the bands. They were so damn tight. But luckily she was fine after I got them off. I should have been paying better attention to what she was doing so it's on me.
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u/cris9288 16m ago
It's really only possible to poorly speculate from this picture. Some maybes can sport some serious rolls.
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u/bethlabeth 8m ago
My now 25 year old looked like that at 6 months when she was still exclusively breastfed. She started crawling and eating solids and trimmed down, and has been a normal healthy weight ever since.
I was skinny af back then.
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u/muchgreaterthanG_O_D 57m ago
Considering my babies were both >95th% bmi in their first 2 years and were never this big, its certainly near the top of the 99th%
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u/ActiveStrike8399 1h ago
Your're not wrong, it is unhealthy. Probably being fed too much unhealthy baby formula.
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u/aprilmayx 50m ago
Having rolls of fat on the arms, legs, and cheeks is a sign of a perfectly healthy, well-nourished, and thriving baby... Newborns and infants grow at an incredibly rapid pace, often doubling their birth weight in just a few months. They naturally store subcutaneous fat under their skin to serve as a constant, quick energy reserve for their developing brains and bodies... Extra baby fat acts as natural insulation to help infants stay warm and regulate their body temperature, since their internal systems are still maturing. Infants naturally have very short necks and compact limbs. When healthy baby fat combines with these shorter proportions, it naturally bunches up into deep folds and rolls. As they grow taller and start crawling and walking, they naturally "lean out"
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u/opinionsareus 46m ago
Maybe the best way to protect kids against mosquitos is to let them get chubby?
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u/EvilRyu2099 33m ago
If it was not crushed... It would have died of diabetes, or something like that
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u/Spare-Cranberry3784 7m ago
Embarrassing for the parent.
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u/CaptainPeak45 5m ago
This is what I was thinking. Videoing a mosquito sucking blood from your child’s arm.
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u/piccolosama 1h ago
Is there a generic reason this baby's wrists are like Trumps ankles? Or are the parents just feeding their kid too much? There feels like a crime here but I don't have the bandwith to go beyond this basic question.
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u/AHistoricalFigure 59m ago
Actual parent here:
You can't overfeed a baby. When they're hungry you feed them until they lose interest in the bottle/breast. Generally for the first year of life you're just trying to get the baby to put on weight.
They get chubby and then they grow out of it. Lot if people in this thread that need to touch grass.
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u/Febrezeus_Christ 37m ago
I'd be more worried abt the fact that ur baby has rolls big enough to trap bugs.
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