It is normal for babies to be born in the 5.5 pound to 10 pound range.
It is true that most babies born each year are born in the normal weight range, while a very small percentage are very small or very large.
There is research that shows how or why children can be born outside the normal range.
Other factors such as a pregnant woman’s weight, whether she has diabetes or high blood pressure can affect the size and health of her newborn baby.
Below is a list of babies who were born well above the normal weight range for a newborn.
The ten heaviest babies ever born.
Teen delivers 15-pound baby in India
A 19-year-old woman named Nandini gave birth to a 15-pound, 24.4-inch baby girl in May 2016.
He was born through a thirty-minute cesarean section procedure at a government-run hospital in Karnataka, India.
The mother, Nandini, weighed 207 pounds at the time of her daughter’s birth, and doctors feared that this would cause diabetes and affect the baby.
The 15-kilogram baby girl is the heaviest newborn on record in India.
On February 11, 2013, a 21-year-old woman named Jade Packer gave birth to a 15-pound, 7-ounce baby boy at Gloucester Royal Infirmary.
According to his parents, because the doctors and his family did not know his size, it was difficult to deliver him.
Doctors gave him a ten per cent chance of survival and he was taken to St Michaels Hospital.
8. The 16-pound baby born in California is one of the largest in history
Sosefina Tagula of California gave birth to a 16-pound, 1.7-ounce boy named Sammisano Joshua Talai Otuhiva in 2013.
According to her mother, she was born early and doctors believed she would weigh 18 pounds.
According to his mother, at 5 months old, baby Sammisano weighed 25 kilograms and has an insatiable hunger.
7. 16-pound boy born at Texas hospital
In 2011, Janet Johnson gave birth to a 16-pound, 24-inch-long baby at Longview Hospital in Texas.
He is the largest baby ever born in that state.
Janet, who was 39 when she gave birth, was diagnosed with gestational diabetes during her pregnancy, which may have contributed to JaMichael’s size.
6. Cape Town woman gives birth to 7.6 kg baby
In 2007, Cathleen Abels gave birth to a 16lb 9oz baby girl at Cape Town’s Tygerberg Hospital.
According to the hospital staff, this was the largest baby ever born in this particular hospital.
She gave birth to her baby Chesner naturally, and according to some news sources, the baby had a bit of trouble breathing and was therefore given breathing assistance from a ward.
5. A woman in Brazil gave birth to a “giant baby” weighing 17 pounds (8 kg)
In 2005 Franasca dos Santos gave birth to a 17-pound baby by cesarean section at a hospital in Salvador, Brazil.
Franasca was 38 years old at the time of the birth of her son.
Doctors at the hospital believed his unusual size was due to his mother’s diabetes.
The baby, Ademilton dos Santos, is the heaviest baby born in Brazil to date.
4. Russian mother gives birth to a ‘giant’ baby
Tatyana Khalina, 43, gave birth to a 17-pound, 5-ounce baby in September 2004.
She gave birth in a hospital in the Altai region of Siberia by caesarean section.
In September 2009, parents Hananudlin and Ani welcomed a baby boy who weighed 19 pounds, 2 ounces.
His mother Ani, who had diabetes, had a complicated 40-minute cesarean delivery.
She was 41 years old at the time of the birth of her son.
2. Carmelina Fedele – She gave birth to baby Heavest who weighed 10.2kg
In 1955, Carmelina Fedele gave birth to a boy who weighed 22 pounds, 8 ounces.
She gave birth in Aversa, Italy.
Your baby is the heaviest baby ever born.
This baby made it into the Guinness World Records as one of the heaviest babies ever in the world.
1. Anna Bates – Gave birth to 28 inch baby
In 1879, a Canadian woman named Anna Bates gave birth to a boy who weighed 22 pounds (9.98 kg) and was 28 inches long.
She gave birth naturally at her home in Ohio, United States.
According to Guinness World Records, Anna Bates herself was 7 feet 11 inches tall.
This baby made it into the Guinness World Records as one of the largest newborn babies in the world.