Maxime Marin a 40 year
British woman yesterday Wednesday gave birth normally to a 6.2 kg giant baby-
Maria Lorena. Doctors described the delivery as "uncomplicated" at
the Marina Salud Hospital in Denia, Alicante.
Marin stays in Spain
with her Colombian spouse and says although she knew the baby girl would be
big, she never dreamt of that size. It is interesting that Marin did not need
an epidural to assist her deliver the baby.
The hospital
authorities said both the mother and the baby were doing well, although the infant
remain monitored in the neonatal care unit.
Senior obstetrics and
gynaecologist, Dr Javier Rius, said in his 40-year professional career he had
never come across or known of any case of a birth of a baby that size born by
natural childbirth.
It is not uncommon
that larger babies are often delivered by Caesar.
AFP news agency reported
that Marin's other three children all weighed at least 4.5kg at birth.
There are other record
births known to have been recorded. The Guinness Book of World Record indicates
that the world’s most cumbersome baby was born in Canada in 1879. The baby
weighed 10.5 kg but died shortly after birth. Both the baby’s parents were
giants. In 2005 in Brazil, a woman gave birth to a baby boy weighing 8kg by Caesar.
Lastly, in March 2013, George King turned out to be UK's second biggest natural
born baby weighing 7kg.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world
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