Germany has a new holder for the title of “heaviest baby.”
She is Jasleen.
She was born at University Hospital in Leipzig on July 26,
weighing in at 13.47 pounds, and measuring 22.6 inches long and she was
delivered without the help of a C-section, reports the New York Daily News.
The medical term for babies born weighing more than 8
pounds, 13 ounces is “fetal macrosomia,” and heavy babies are often attributed
to maternal obesity and diabetes, among other factors. In Jasleen’s case,
doctors said her size is due to an undiagnosed case of gestational diabetes,
reports the German paper Der Spiegel, which adds that both baby and Mom are
doing well, though Jasleen remains in the hospital.
Until Jasleen’s birth last week the title of Germany’s
“heaviest” or “largest” baby belonged to one named Jihad, who was born in
November 2011 and weighed in at 13 pounds. Jasleen, however, is not the
heaviest baby born this year. We can’t forget about about George King, who was
born in March to a British couple and weighed in at 15 pounds, 7 ounces and
again, yes, he was delivered vaginally.
And on July 11, Pittsburgh-area woman Michelle Cessna gave
birth to Addyson Gale Cessna, who was born at 13 pounds, 12 ounces, and
measured 25 inches via C-section.
While big babies seem to be on the rise, the Guinness Book
of World Records says the heaviest baby ever born weighed 23 pounds, born to
Anna Bates in 1879. No other newborn has tipped that scale yet, but here are
seven who have come close.
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