Janet Johnson of Longsview, Texas recently gave birth to a big baby boy. At 16 lbs, JaMichael Brown was more than twice the size of your average newborn. Fortunately for mom Janet, he was born by caesarean section.
At two-feet-long, and 16 lbs. and two ounces, with a good head of red hair, Baby Brown is being fed through a tube, and doctors are closely monitoring his blood sugar.
Mom Janet had been diagnosed with gestational diabetes, which doctors credit to the baby's size.
Attending nurse, Mary Beth, said she'd never seen a newborn so big in all her 20 years. "[He's] a beautiful baby," she said. "But for health reasons, we'd rather not see a baby this large."
But by Guinness World Records standards, Brown is by no means the biggest baby ever born. We Canucks hold the record for that. In 1879, weighing more than 23 lbs, the infant died 11 hours after birth. No mention of what befell the poor mother. Shudder to think.
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