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| 16.7 Pound Newborn? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 20 2005, 07:50 PM (76 Views) | |
| DylansMom | Jan 20 2005, 07:50 PM Post #1 |
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Jackie-Sioux Falls, SD (in Arizona for the moment)
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Yikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Story & Pic here SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - A woman in northeastern Brazil has given birth to what one doctor called a ``giant baby,'' a boy weighing 16.7 pounds. Francisca Ramos dos Santos, 38, gave birth to the healthy boy named Ademilton on Tuesday at a hospital in Salvador, 900 miles northeast of Sao Paulo. He was the largest baby born at the Albert Sabin Maternity Hospital in its 12-year history, the hospital said. ``Obviously the baby was born by Caesarean section,'' hospital director Rita Leal said. ``Both mother and baby are doing just fine.'' Ademilton ``could truly be considered a giant baby, for he was born weighing what a six-month-old-baby normally weighs,'' pediatrician Luiz Sena Azul told the Correio da Bahia newspaper. Santos has four other children - ages 9, 12, 14, and 15 - who were born weighing between 7.7 pounds and 11 pounds. ``She knew Ademilton would be a big baby, but not this big'' Leal said. ``She, her husband and the hospital staff were caught by surprise.'' The average weight for newborns in Brazil is 7.7 pounds for boys and 6.6 pounds for girls. Story & Pic here |
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| august-alberta | Jan 20 2005, 09:23 PM Post #2 |
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Colleen - Cold Lake Alberta
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All I can say is OUCH! My daughter was 10-4 and believe me, afterwards I was over and out! That's one of the reasons she's my one & only! |
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| PRT | Jan 20 2005, 09:33 PM Post #3 |
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"Obviously the baby was born by Caesarean section." Well, I would hope so! Dear Lord...
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| sylley2000 | Jan 20 2005, 09:35 PM Post #4 |
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Sylvia, Grand Bend ON
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It hurts just to look at the size of the toddler! Sylvia |
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| brewster | Jan 20 2005, 09:55 PM Post #5 |
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Hey, I was over 11.5 lbs when I was born! - Tallest baby ever born in Winnipeg at that time.... No problem! (It probably helped that my mother was over 6 feet herself!) |
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| DylansMom | Jan 21 2005, 05:53 AM Post #6 |
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Jackie-Sioux Falls, SD (in Arizona for the moment)
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I guess I was easy on my Mom, I was only 5lbs 8oz. Just a tad premauture. Maybe that's where I got my stubborness!
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| mychrissy | Jan 21 2005, 07:25 AM Post #7 |
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Chrissy
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Amazing.
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| Kate and Ed | Jan 21 2005, 10:26 AM Post #8 |
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Caesarian...16.7 pounds...bet she will have to wait awhile just to pick him up! :blah: Kate |
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| Trailblazer | Jan 21 2005, 01:36 PM Post #9 |
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I heard on the news this morning the mother was diabetic, which was the reason for the baby's weight. |
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