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February 7, 2012 in News
Chinese mother gives birth to 15 lb. babe
BEIJING (AP) — A mother in central China has given birth to a 15.52 pound (7.04 kilogram) baby, possibly the largest newborn on record since the country’s founding in 1949.
The state-run Tianjin Post said Tuesday that the 29-year-old mother in Henan province gave birth to the boy Saturday by cesarean section. It said delivery took just 20 minutes and both mother and the baby, named Chun Chun, are doing fine.
The paper said Chun Chun’s parents are average size and there was nothing unusual about his mother’s pregnancy or diet.
The paper said it wasn’t immediately clear whether Chun Chun made China’s record books.
Guinness World Records says the heaviest newborn ever recorded was born to an Ohio woman in 1879 and weighed 23.7 pounds (10.77 kilograms).
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silverlake89 on February 07 at 9:33 p.m.
This can happen when mom has diabetes so I wonder if that had anything to do with the 23 pounder.
lewis8457 on February 08 at 7:43 a.m.
thank god it is a boy, at least he will be able to live a good life.
luvdalz68 on February 08 at 12:48 p.m.
Maybe his name should be “Chunk-chunk”?
hunternomore on February 08 at 5:43 p.m.
This can also happen when you are genetically engineered to have large babies, as did my mother who had several at 12-12 and me who had two at 10-10, none having anything to do with diabetes!! As for the 1869 birth guess we’ll never know.