When Maci Mugele uploaded a short clip of her baby boy to TikTok last summer, viewers were astonished.
At just four months old, little Gunner weighed more than 22lbs, measured two-and-a-half feet and was already wearing clothes designed for toddlers.
While some of the comments gushed over his ‘chunky cheeks’ and ‘cute features’, others accused his mother of ‘child abuse’, claiming she must be overfeeding him.
Maci, from Chandler, Oklahoma in the US, insisted she was simply feeding her son when he was hungry, adding that doctors had repeatedly reassured her he was perfectly healthy.
But while the debate around babies such as Gunner
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