A mother from Berkshire, Grace, was left “shocked” after giving birth to an 11lb 5oz baby, making him the largest newborn at her hospital this year. Her adorable daughter Annie, who was estimated to weigh 8lb 13oz, turned out to be much larger than predicted. Speaking to Fabulous, the proud mum revealed that Annie was born four months ago via a planned C-section at 37 weeks.
Grace, 38, recounted, “She was placed in my arms, and they brought the scales over to weigh her next to me. I just kept laughing; I was in total shock, and the team who was in surgery with me said it was the biggest baby some of them had ever delivered. She is also the biggest baby born so far this year at the hospital.”
The staff at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey and Grace’s partner were amazed by Annie’s weight. “We were all surprised when she went on the scales. She’s just beautiful. My partner was just gobsmacked; he knows growth scans can be a bit off, so he guessed that she’d actually be about 8lb 12ozs. We both kept laughing and just looking at her. We donated all her newborn clothes to the hospital because, as you can see, we couldn’t even do up the top popper.”
Grace, who is also mum to Oliver, 10, and Albert, 6, mentioned that her previous two births had been emergency C-sections due to failed inductions, so Annie’s C-section was planned in advance. She added that with three kids, she has her hands full and Annie will be her last.
There are other extraordinary cases of heavy births:
- The heaviest baby born to a healthy mother was a boy weighing 10.2 kg (22 lb 8 oz), born to Sig. Carmelina Fedele in Aversa, Italy, in September 1955.
- In Brazil, Francisca Ramos dos Santos gave birth via caesarean section to her son Ademilton, who weighed 7.57 kg (16 lb 11.02 oz) on January 18, 2005, in Salvador.
- On June 3, 1961, a boy weighing 11 kg (24 lb 4 oz) was reported to have been born to Mrs. Sadaat Cor in Turkey.
