The baby girl weighed 9 pounds (4 kilograms) when she was born, is now as heavy as an average 6-year-old

Mar 2, 2015 13:02 GMT  ·  By

Young Aliya Saleen was born in a small village in the state of Jharkhand in eastern India just 10 months ago. However, her body weight is that of an 6-year-old.

According to the doctors who have had the chance to examine her, she tips the scale at 2 stones and 13 pounds (18.6 kilograms). This makes her morbidly obese, despite the fact that she has not yet celebrated her first birthday.

Like Juanita Valentina Hernandez, a baby girl living in Colombia who is also morbidly obese, Aliya Saleen risks developing various health trouble because of all the excess weight pressing on her organs and joints.

In fact, her mother, 25-year-old Shabana Parveen, says that she already wakes up several times a night because the sheer size of her body makes it difficult for her to breathe when lying on her back, sleeping.

The girl looked like any other child when she was born

The baby girl's parents say that, when she was born, 10-month-old Aliya Saleem looked just like any other child. Thus, they say that, at delivery, she weighed merely 9 pounds (4 kilograms). For a while, everything seemed just fine and dandy.

However, a few months after birth, she started gaining weight. Since her family could not afford to take her to see a doctor, she simply continued to get bigger and bigger until she reached her current size.

“We had to buy her a new pair of clothes every two weeks because the old ones become too tight for her,” her mother said. “We have tried our best, but we could only afford to take her to the local hospital,” her father, 28-year-old Mohammad Saleem, added.

Rather than be discriminated against, the girl is quite popular in her home village, Daily Mail says. In fact, her parents say that children often drop by to play with her and adults very much like her.

Doctors have no idea why the girl put on this much weight

Admittedly, 10-month-old Aliya Saleem now eats about three times as much food as most babies usually do on a daily basis. However, medical experts cannot say for sure whether it was a poor diet that caused her weight gain to begin with.

As explained by Dr. Krishan Chugh at the Fortis Hospital on the outskirts of Delhi, it could be that the girl started putting on weight because of a hormonal imbalance. The specialist hopes that he and his colleagues will soon figure out what caused the girl's condition and how to treat her.

Seeing how Aliya Saleem's older brother does not have any weight issues, it is unlikely that the girl ended up morbidly obese simply because of her diet. Then again, it looks like it was not long ago that her parents lost one other baby girl who, when not yet 2 years old, died due to medical complications associated with obesity.

Baby girl weighs as much as a 6-year-old (5 Images)

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