Updated: 11:42 a.m. ET Jan. 20, 2005A woman in Brazil gave birth Wednesday to a boy that doctors have nicknamed "giant baby." The infant weighs 17 pounds, about the average size of a six-month-old. He was delivered by Caesarean section.
The boy's 38-year-old mother is diabetic, a condition which can commonly cause women to give birth to larger babies. The boy, named Ademilton dos Santos, is receiving oxygen due to breathing problems and is being given an intravenous glucose solution to maintain a safe blood sugar level.
The director of the hospital in Cajazeiras, an area in north eastern Brazil, said the boy is otherwise in good health. Doctors say the mother Francisca Ramos dos Santos is feeling well after her surgery.
The boy's father and four sibilings were reportedly surprised at the news.
He is the heaviest baby ever born in Brazil, according to Brazilian medical officials.
If you click on the link you can see the pic of the baby.
The story on our stations were saying undiagnosed diabetes in Mum and here's the best part "doctors were hoping she'd deliver lady partslly" and "opted to do a c-section".
I had a 10.5lb guy and he wasn't that bad. But I had a lot of tasteless jokes when people found out I didn't have a section....
A friend of mine had an 11 lb 14 oz lady partsl delivery. Good prenatal care so don't know why he was soo big. The doctor was an older gentleman that really was pushing c/sec and she told him she really wanted to try. This "straight laced" doctor was on the floor at the end massaging her perineum as she squatted on next to the bed. Wish I could have been there:rotfl:
I've never delivered a baby lady partslly, so I just have a question for those of you who have without pain relief...
It's all so dang painful, does a 10 lb. baby really hurt all the more than a 6 lb. baby? I suppose the aftermath the next day and such might be more painful with a bigger baby but when it's actually happening isn't it all so painful that it hurts a lot either way?
When my cousin was born at 11lbs my uncle quipped that at that weight he could put a backpack on her and send her to school with the rest of the kids;)
Goodness...I was 10 lb 4 oz...next to this baby, I would have looked like a preemie. My sister was a little bigger, and if you saw my mom, you wouldn't believe it...model thin...she definitely had a c/sec.
Y'know... Just from what I can see of him from that picture, he doesn't have that squished-up-fat-face look that's typical to IDM'ers! 17 lbs. makes you think that she was poorly controlled with her glucoses, but maybe she was fairly controlled.
That's funny. I thought the baby had the classic, textbook look of an infant of a diabetic mother. I had figured out that he was an IDM even before the news mentioned it.
He does have the look, but the really big IDMers usually have a more squished up fat face than that. Then again, you can't really see his face. I bet he has hairy ears though!
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rofl.