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That's a Big Baby! Newborn Weighs 14 lbs., 2 oz.
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UPI
December 30, 2008
LAGUNA HILLS, Calif., Dec. 29 (UPI) — Doctors said a 14-pound, 2-ounce boy born at a Laguna Hills, Calif., hospital may be the largest baby ever delivered in Orange County.
Saddleback Memorial Medical Center doctors said the child born Tuesday to Sara and Richard Sault is the heaviest baby to be born at the hospital and an informal check of other hospitals in the county found no larger infants on record, The Orange County Register reported Monday.
Hospital officials said two doctors were needed to lift the child, named Richard Jr., during Sault’s Caesarean section and the big baby barely fit into the largest diapers available at the hospital.
Dr. Ronald Naglie, a neonatologist at Saddleback Memorial, said Richard Jr. is “certainly the biggest newborn I’ve encountered” in his 30 years of working with infants.
The Guinness Book of World Records lists the largest-ever surviving infant as weighing 22.5 pounds at birth.
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marcis
10 months ago
18 comments
I have a friend that delivered a 13 ilb. baby and had no gestational diabetes, was not overweight and child grew up healthy. She was a week late.
lskrn57
10 months ago
2 comments
i agree she had gest. diabetes and she probably didnt follow her diet were was her doctor, i help deliver a 13lb a she really wast that pretty
nurseaisha
10 months ago
450 comments
For the love of God....I can't even imagine!
dereshperez
10 months ago
10 comments
I agree. Mom had to have gestational diabetes. Still having to carry a child that large. WOW.
startiff68
10 months ago
2 comments
Sounds like gestational Diabetes to me...
sundia1978
10 months ago
4 comments
is there any picture
akbabyboy
10 months ago
2 comments
24lbs is the biggest
my youngest was only 12lb 8oz vaginal no c section and no epideral. Anch, AK Nov. 6th 2001
lexzworld
10 months ago
14 comments
Now thats a big baby/kid!! Lexi @ lexzworld@cox.net
SHERRY_CLARK77
10 months ago
6 comments
WOW ! MY FIRST TWO CHILDREN WHERE BIG BABIES AND MY LAST ONE WAS SMALL . SO NEEDLESS TO SAY WAY TO GO MOM BIGGER BABIES ARE EASIER TO HAVE THEN THE SMALL ONES . CONGRATS TO THE FAMILY .
goldielocks
10 months ago
126 comments
omg !That a big kid. my son weigh 3lbs 15oz.and we had two girls born the same day who were 8 lbs and 9 lbs and my son was so small next to them . My best freind had a 10lbs boy two months after Terrance was born and it took terrance 6 years to check up with him in weigh and height. But he is now 6'1" 148.
mandysmom1987
10 months ago
102 comments
A large baby indeed.
When I had my daughter, there was a mother in the hospital who had a baby that weighed almost 13 pounds. When I asked if she had a C-section, she calmly replied, "No, I had him vaginally. I have 3 other children and the smallest was 10 lbs." My only thought then was "ouch".
AbusyRN2go
10 months ago
12114 comments
WOW that beats the largest one I delivered at 13 lbs 2 oz, it was a vaginal birth multip 4 other vag deliveries ALL big babies, she was huge as well, we had to get shirts from peds new born would not fit, Glad all are healthy.
1RNBSN2B
10 months ago
10 comments
Wow!! My third son was 10lbs. 11oz.. and I had him vaginally, but good gravy that's a big 'ol boy!! Congrats to the parents and a job well done to the new mommy!
Jeannie
10 months ago
136 comments
Put him on the team! He's almost 7 times my weight when I was born.
jane_0126
10 months ago
1650 comments
That's one big baby! He's almost 3 times my weight when I was born...