16 Pounds!!!
 

:eek:

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.

That's bigger than the turkey we had at Thanksgiving.

I told this to my husband and he had already heard about it. He wasn't going to tell me. :rolleyes:

When my son was born @ 8.5lb, there was a woman in the same ward whose baby weighed 15lbs and was 26" long. He was so long, he didn't fit into the baby cribs and they had to get one from pediatrics. His mother was in labour for 4 hours and didn't need a stitch.
love
Jo

i want a 16lb baby

*wince*

I was 6 lbs 9 oz, who would have thought that I would have grown up to be 6' 3", 220 pounds. Watch, this kid will grow up to be 4' 3". :)

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES PEOPLE!

A friend of mine with no less than three prior c-sections had a baby that weighed 12 pounds after a three hour labour. Her fifth baby weighed 14 pounds and was born after a one hour labour.

And seeing as we are all so concerned with intact perineums - no stitches either.

Oh you don't have to have a baby to have that happen.

^^

Happened to my friend Judy. Imagine having to explain that to the doctor.

holy crap people!
are ya tryin' to freak me out?

Been there, done that. :cool:

O hell, dont worry, red
 

You can rip anything you want, they'll sew it back up, if you have the epidural!!!!! You wont know til way later. You'll be way distracted.

Oh I'll have the epidural. The first time they ask me I'm saying yes. I've got nothing to prove to anyone!

damn, I hope they give me the epidural. I've alreay asked the OB and she said I could have one after I've dialate past 4cms.
I just hope there is someone available to do it when I need it!