Pudgy cheeks that once drew “ooohs and aaahs” are eliciting “ughs” from some parents who have struggled with their own weight issues and fear their children will toddle along the same path.

“I have seen parents putting their infant and one-year-old on diets because of history in one parent or another,” said Dr. Jatinder Bhatia, who chairs the nutrition committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics and is chief of neonatology at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta.

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