At DS2's 12 month health check today, we learned that he is literally (and significantly) off the chart for weight (13.02kg) and high for head circumference (95pc) and length (75pc). Not enormously surprising, given that DS2 takes after DH who is a 6"2 slab of handsome beefcake Icould just eat up (DS1 on the other hand takes after me, and is average height, average weight, and a delightful brunet chatterbox!!)

He's not walking yet but is cruising and standing for very short periods, and is otherwise doing fine with development (some words, problem solving, responding, etc).

The MCHN seemed cautious about his weight. She basically said we needed to be aware of how heavy he is, and we should be careful.

She said while they don't monitor BMI for people under 2 years old, maybe we should feed him more fruit, less milk and less food in general.

We pointed out that we feed him bang on the recommended dairy milk intake daily, and she said that there's calcium in other things, so we could drop it off a bit.

We came away a bit baffled. He eats two serves of fruit a day, and if we were to offer more fruit, what would it be instead of? Less veggies? Meat? Grains? We don't give him biscuits or cake or lollies or chips... he basically has weetbix with fruit for brekky, a sandwich for lunch, meat and veggies for dinner with fruit and sometimes natural yoghurt for dessert, and 4 bottles over the course of the day,plus water. Snacks are a range of rusks, fruit and veggie sticks.

Now, don't get me wrong - DS2 gets fed quite a lot - but he's a BLS bub and so a significant amount ends up on the floor, on the chair, in his hair, down his shirt (down my shirt, in y ears, in my hair ... you get the picture ...) and he would eat no more than DS1 did at that age, and he was generally between 30-70pc depending on growth spurts.

And DS1 mellowed out on the eating front around 18 months, and now eats a sensible amount for his age. During that teething and growthspurt-y time, he was ravenous though.

So yeah ... not sure what to do with that advice ... We might pull back from offering seconds of food at meals, and see what happens. He might be eating seconds because he likes food, rather than actually being hungry. But other than that ... not sure ...

Anyone here in the school of "been there, done that"?