A baby-giant, weighing almost 7 kg (15.4 pounds), was born in Kokshetau in northern Kazakhstan, the chief doctor of the regional maternity hospital said on Friday.(Rainovosti).
The newborn and her mother are feeling fine. “I had to do caesarean sections because the baby was a large girl, weighing 6,645 grams [14.6 pounds],” a hospital spokesman said.
The usual weight of a healthy newborn child is 3-3.5 kg (6.6 – 7.7 pounds). An infant up to 5 kg (11 pounds) is considered big, more than 5 and it is a “giant”. According to statistics, these big babies are a rare event and are born one in every 1,500 cases.
“This is the first time we've witnessed such a case, but the operation was successful,” the doctor said.
Hmmm......According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Canadian Anna Bates gave birth to a baby boy who weighed 23 pounds, 12 ounces and was 30 inches long. He was born way back in 1879, however, and died just 11 hours later. The biggest baby a healthy mom delivered was another boy, who truly tipped the scales at 22 pounds, 8 ounces. His mom was Carmelina Fedele from Italy, and that was in 1955. More recently, a woman in Indonesia birthed a 19-pound boy.
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