a 16.7 pound newborn baby?!

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http://www.comcast.net/News/HEALTHWELLNESS//XML/1500_Health__medical/2b041806-9d2b-429a-92f8-9143d6b96a6c.html



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SAO PAULO, Brazil - 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.
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wow! :wow:

[LiberalVoice]

1. That kid is gonna be enormous!

Hope the Steelers draft him! :P

[Maestro]

2. This was her fifth

The other babies she had were big as well. One was 11 pounds before this one. The woman is diabetic which played a role in the baby being so large.

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4. i know, i'm amazed the mom and babe are both okay.

i wonder if the baby will stay big or gradually get back into the normal size range.

[Maestro]

11. I really don't know

but pretty soon they are going to have a tough time finding diapers that fit him unless they just use cloth.

[Renew Deal]

3. PUSH!!! PUSH!!!

:wow:

[rocktivity]

9. A cesarian, I presume?

"Obviously the baby was born by Caesarean section," hospital director Rita Leal said. "Both mother and baby are doing just fine."


Just checking...

crazy:
rocknation

[kerrywins]

5. damn thats nasty

..

[BigMcLargehuge]

6. It wasn't us, honest!

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16. snarf! that would be BigMcLargehuger.

[ps1074]

7. NOT the heaviest baby ever though

The heaviest baby ever was a 22 pounds 8oz boy born to Italian Carmelina Fedele in 1955.

[MissMillie]

13. I heard 28 lbs.

[ps1074]

15. I checked with the Guiness World Record Book

:)

But there might be an even bigger baby not listed there :shrug:

[Schema Thing]

8. Sweet Nacho Eatin' Jesus!

[Schema Thing]

10. It's stories like this that give me the heeby jeebies

to think about "the old days". Can you imagine? *shudder* I guess in *the old days* the mother would have been dead 2 or 3 babies ago.

[Fleshdancer]

12. I would take a baseball bat to my husband if he ever did that to me!

This poor woman gave birth to a toddler! I would NEVER have sex again if my baby was that size.

[Ravenseye]

14. Bigger than our 3 month old

And our 3 month old is in the 90th percentile as far as size. I can't even imagine what this baby is.