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This baby story ends happily ... but it started out with CafeMoms using terms like "Absolutely ridiculous!" "What is this world coming to?" and "That is absurd!"
What happened the other day was a 4 month old baby was denied health insurance for being "too fat."
Oh, there's no question the boy is big. He's 17 pounds, putting him in the 99th percentile for weight. But, it's still not that big. When Alex's family applied to the Rocky Mountain Health Plan for insurance coverage, they denied the child based on a policy that they reject anyone who is over the 95th percentile.
We're talking a healthy, breastfed baby here! Click for a photo of Alex Lange.
Following a backlash, the company realized its mistake and covered the lad, so all is fine and dandy. Does seem like a legit mistake. How many applications for 17 pound newborns come across your desk every day?
Okay, so now I'm not thinking so much about the denial as I am over Alex's mom's poor back. Four month olds still need lots of holding. My back killed me those first few months, and my son was normal weight and my daughter was a peanut.
I wonder if it's hard to set him down in the crib without waking him up?
Boy, that infant car seat carrier must be a real pain to lug around.
Then again, there's so much more of him to love. There's nothing like feeling of enveloping a robust, chunky baby in your arms and smothering him with hugs and kisses!
How big was your baby at four months? Did he follow the growth charts for weight?
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Comments (8)
My son is 4 months and is 16lbs 8oz and 26.5 in. --So he's around the 95th percentile for weight -- He wasn't big at birth--started out at 7lbs 1 oz, but he's a big boy, healthy, breastfed baby. --He is heavy to carry in the infant carrier, which is why we'll be moving him to a convertible seat soon. --Other than that, he doesn't seem heavy at all.
my son at 4 months is 19 lbs 2 oz and 26 1/2 inches long. His father is 6'5" and so the pediatrician told me we should expect to be above 100% for a while. He is formula fed and we started cereal this weekend. Yes the carrier is heavy, but we are moving to a convertible seat soon as well.
My daughter was around 11 or 12 pounds at that age. She didn't hit 20 until after her first birthday. She three and a half now and JUST hit 30 pounds. She was 27 for a long, long time.
My son was born premature and weighed 5 pounds. By the age of 2 months he was in the 95th percentile and stayed there. He was a plump breast fed baby and by the time he was walking the extra weight was burned off fast, but he was much taller than all other kids at the daycare and later on in school too. He now is 6'3" and 16 years old and at a healthy weight.
It's crazy that this baby was denied. I could see a denial if he were 40 pounds and being fed McGarbage every day, but this? No way.
That was so absurd. It's sad that it seems like it took a media circus to make that insurance company reconsider.
Our baby was 17 pound 6 ounes when he was 4 months old. So he was bIGGER than this baby, only breastmilk till he was 4 months old, the 99th percentile. I am happy with my big baby.
My oldest was 17 lbs 9 oz. at 3 months. I never had him weighed at 4 months. He was exclusively breastfed until just over 5 months. He was sooo chubby. My little butterball. At that age, he didn't seem too heavy to carry around, and putting him in the crib wasn't an issue either. The carrier was very heavy, though. But he outgrew it (by weight) at 6 months, and it was one that went to 22 pounds. That's when I found carrying him to be hard on the back (and everything else). Because then he was always leaning over trying to grab stuff.