NWR- Woman Gives Birth to Giant Baby

SAO PAULO, Brazil - A woman in northeastern Brazil has given birth to what one doctor called a 'giant baby,' a boy weighing 16.7 pounds.

Francisca Ramos dos Santos, 38, gave birth to the healthy boy named Ademilton on Tuesday at a hospital in Salvador, 900 miles northeast of Sao Paulo. He was the largest baby born at the Albert Sabin Maternity Hospital in its 12-year history, the hospital said.

'Obviously the baby was born by Caesarean section,' hospital director Rita Leal said. 'Both mother and baby are doing just fine.'

Ademilton 'could truly be considered a giant baby, for he was born weighing what a six-month-old-baby normally weighs,' pediatrician Luiz Sena Azul told the Correio da Bahia newspaper.

Santos has four other children — ages 9, 12, 14, and 15 — who were born weighing between 7.7 pounds and 11 pounds.

'She knew Ademilton would be a big baby, but not this big' Leal said. 'She, her husband and the hospital staff were caught by surprise.'

The average weight for newborns in Brazil is 7.7 pounds for boys and 6.6 pounds for girls.

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Wow!!

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OUCH!!!!

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Most likely she had gestational diabetes... that is why mothers are screened here... she would have been induced when the baby was at the 'normal weight'

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All I have to say after reading this is...Thank God for C-Sections!

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Okay now I'm really scared....

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Holy $$$$

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I can't even imagine!

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She gave birth to a toddler!?!?!??!