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16.7 Pound Newborn?
Topic Started: Jan 20 2005, 07:50 PM (76 Views)
DylansMom
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Jackie-Sioux Falls, SD (in Arizona for the moment)
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.
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Greg, Dylan & Jasper too!
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august-alberta
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Colleen - Cold Lake Alberta
All I can say is OUCH!

My daughter was 10-4 and believe me, afterwards I was over and out! :P

That's one of the reasons she's my one & only!
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PRT
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"Obviously the baby was born by Caesarean section."
Well, I would hope so! Dear Lord... :ohmy: :ohmy:
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Sylvia, Grand Bend ON
It hurts just to look at the size of the toddler!

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brewster
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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
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Jackie-Sioux Falls, SD (in Arizona for the moment)
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! :P
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Amazing. :ohmy: :ohmy: :ohmy:
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Kate and Ed
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Caesarian...16.7 pounds...bet she will have to wait awhile just to pick him up!

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Trailblazer
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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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