A 13 pound baby was born at a Pennsylvania hospital; the doctors who delivered the giant newborn had never seen anything like it.
Baby Addyson Gale was born to Michelle and Mark Cessna, she weighed in at 13 pounds 12 ounces and was over two feet long, the Huffington Post reported.
"We knew we had a big baby, but not that big," Michelle told KDKA.
"I was guessing about 10 pounds, I wasn't expecting this," Mark also told the news station.
The baby was delivered via C-section.
I think as mothers, we all have that initial,'oh my that must have hurt,' and they're right. That's big." Dr. Yannie Narcisse, one of the doctors who delivered Addyson, said.
Armstrong County Memorial Hospital, where Addyson was born, does not keep birth weight records, but doctor's at the hospital said the baby was the largest they had ever delivered.
A higher birth-weight could be an indication of health problems.
"There may be a general perception that, 'Oh, the baby's big, but so what?' That's a misperception," Mary Helen Black, a biostatistician with Kaiser Permanente Southern California's department of research and evaluation told the Huffington Post.
Black said larger babies are at risk "for very serious consequences both during delivery, for the mother and the infant, as well as later in life -- for the infant."
Babies with a birth-weight of over eight pounds, 13 ounces, are classified as having a condition called fetal macrosomia. The extra weight can be linked to maternal obesity and diabetes.
Addyson and her mother are both in good health, KDKA reported.
In March, a British baby named George King weighed 15 pounds, seven ounces, at birth. He was the second largest baby to be delivered vaginally in the U.K, according to the Huffington Post.
A Canadian baby born in 1879 to Anna Bates holds the record for heaviest birth-weight. He was 23 pounds, 12 ounces, and measured over 30 inches long.
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