The BBC are reporting how a Russian woman has given birth to a baby weighing 7.75kg (17.5lbs), which is massive, more than twice the average newborn weight. She was delivered by Caesarean section at a hospital in the Altai region of Siberia.
“We were all simply in shock,” reports quoted Nadia’s mother, Tatyana Barabanova, 43, as saying. “What did the father say? He couldn’t say a thing – he just stood there blinking,” she said.
Scarily all her previous babies had weighed more than 5kg (11lb), a local reporter was quoted by the Reuters news agency as saying.
“I ate everything, we don’t have the money for special foods so I just ate potatoes, noodles and tomatoes,” added Mrs Barabanova, who had the child on 17 September.
Other heavy babies include a boy weighing 17lb (7.73kg), born in 2005 in Brazil; and a 10.2kg (22.5lb) boy born in Italy in 1955, and a 10.8kg (23.8lb) boy born in the US in 1879 but who died 11 hours later.
I am sure there must be a way of using this news item in a talk or assembly, I find it inconceivable to believe that someone could give birth to something that large. 17.5 Ilbs is massive.
What did you say????? Couldn’t hear you……………….
Tee hee hee hee hee
Paula