The biggest baby ever to be delivered naturally in Spain arrived yesterday weighing 13lb 7oz (6.095kg).
The supersize baby Maria Lorena Marin was born to British mother Maxime Marin. She is only a couple of days old, but she is already causing quite a stir around the globe.
She arrived yesterday morning at the Hospital Marina Salud in the Mediterranean city of Denia following a five-hour labour — her mother giving birth without pain relief.
The baby is almost double the weight of the average baby born in Ireland. The average birth weight for babies born in Ireland has increased in recent times. In 2010the average weight was 3.468kg (7lb 10oz) compared with 3.477kg (7lb 7oz) in 2001, according to figures compile by the Economic and Social Research Institute.
Official UK data shows that between 2011 and 2012 only 0.2 per cent of babies born in England weighed more than 5kg (11 lb).
Earlier this year, a Californian woman gave birth to a child weighing even more than Maria. Jayden Sigler was 6.293kg (13lb 14oz) , when he was delivered by Caesarean section.
His mother, Cynthia Sigler, said it needed a photo of the scale readout to convince her family that the birth weight wasn’t a joke — after medics had previously estimated the baby would only weigh around 4.082kg ( 9lb).
Baby George King became one of the heaviest babies born naturally in England when he was delivered earlier this year weighing in at 15lb 7oz (7.002kg).
Last year, a mother in central China gave birth to a 15lb 8oz (7.030kg) baby, possibly the largest newborn on record since the country’s founding in 1949.
The state-run Tianjin Post said that the 29-year-old mother in Henan province gave birth to the boy by Caesarean section. It said delivery took just 20 minutes and both mother and the baby, named Chun Chun, were doing fine.
Almost six decades earlier, a baby boy weighing 22lbs 8oz (10.205kg) was born to Carmelina Fedele in Aversa, Italy.
But they all fall short of the heaviest baby ever born — which tipped the scales at 23lb 12oz (10.773kg), according to the Guinness Book of World Records. But the baby, born to a mother who had giantism and delivered in Canada in 1879, died 11 hours later.
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