Giant baby mother gives birth to 6.4 kilos baby

USA: Woman gives birth to 6.4 kilos baby

02/10/2015

One woman gave birth to a 6.4-kg baby in the US. She first thought she would get twins. With very fat unborn children there are health risks for both the mother and the baby.

Baby with 6.4 kg birth weight
A woman in the US gave birth to a baby that weighed 6.4 kilograms at birth. As „t-online.de“ The mother did not even know she was pregnant until the 36th week of pregnancy. Then she thought she would get twins. As the woman told TV broadcasters WFLA and WFTS, the doctors confirmed to her that she was pregnant after gaining weight quickly in the fall. The boy was born naturally on January 29th.

Woman had initially thought of twins
The birth lasted for 18 hours. It is the third child of the woman who already has a one-year-old boy and a five-year-old daughter. It has been reported that the big baby is in the neonatal intensive care unit but will probably be able to return home soon. According to St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa, the child is one of the heaviest ever born in the state of Florida. The woman said that she almost faded when she held her son in her arms. She had initially thought after the pregnancy diagnosis, she would get twins.

Health risks
As „t-online.de“ End of last year, the average newborn in Germany weighs about 3,500 grams and reported extreme exceptions. According to the Guinness book, the heaviest newborn who survived was a 10.2 kilogram boy born in 1955 in Aversa, Italy. There are health risks to both the mother and the baby if the unborn child is too fat. So it may be that the child no longer fits in the pelvis and must be brought by caesarean section. Furthermore, there is a higher risk of injury during childbirth. In addition, an oxygen shortage of the baby threatens. (Ad)