It is normal for babies to be born between 5.5 pounds and 10 pounds.
It is true that most babies born each year fall within the normal weight range, and a very small proportion are very small or very large.
There are studies showing how and why babies can be born outside of 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.
Below is a list of babies who were born well above the normal birth weight.
The ten heaviest babies ever born.
A teenage girl in India gave birth to a baby weighing 15 kilograms
A 19-year-old woman named Nandini in 2016. gave birth to a 15-pound, 24.4-inch baby girl in May.
She was delivered in a thirty-minute caesarean section at a government-run hospital in Karnataka, India.
Mother Nandini weighed 207 pounds at the time of her daughter’s birth, and doctors feared that this would cause her to develop diabetes and harm the baby.
At 15 kilograms, the girl is the heaviest newborn on record in India.
in 2013 February 11 A 21-year-old woman named Jade Packer gave birth to a 15lb 7oz 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 transferred to St Michaels Hospital.
8. A 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 his mother, he was born prematurely and doctors thought he would have weighed 18 pounds.
According to his mother, the 5-month-old baby Sammisano weighed 25 kilograms and is unbearably hungry.
7. A 16-pound baby boy was born in a Texas hospital
In 2011, Janet Johnson gave birth to a 16-pound, 24-inch baby at Longview Hospital in Texas.
He is the largest baby ever born in this state.
Janet, who was 39 at the time of the birth, was diagnosed with gestational diabetes during her pregnancy, which may have contributed to JaMichael’s height.
6. A Cape Town woman gives birth to a 7.6 kg baby
in 2007 At Cape Town’s Tygerberg Hospital, Cathleen Abels gave birth to a baby girl who weighed 16lbs 9oz.
According to the hospital staff, it was the largest baby born in this particular hospital.
She gave birth to her baby, Chesner, naturally, and according to some news sources, the baby had a little trouble breathing, so she got some help breathing from the 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-kilogram baby by caesarean section at a hospital in Salvador, Brazil.
Franasca was 38 years old when her son was born.
Doctors at the hospital believed his unusual size was due to his mother’s diabetes.
Baby Ademilton dos Santos is the heaviest baby born in Brazil to date.
4. A Russian mother gives birth to a “giant” baby
43-year-old Tatjana Khalina in 2004. gave birth to a baby boy in September who weighed 17 pounds, 5 ounces.
She gave birth by caesarean section in a hospital in the Altai region of Siberia.
in 2009 in September, parents Hananudlin and Ani welcomed a baby boy weighing 19 pounds, 2 ounces.
His mother, Ani, who had diabetes, underwent a complicated 40-minute C-section.
She was 41 years old when her son was born.
2. Carmelina Fedele – gave birth to the heaviest baby weighing 10.2 kg
in 1955 Carmelina Fedele gave birth to a baby boy who weighed 22 pounds, 8 ounces.
She gave birth in Aversa, Italy.
Her baby is the heaviest baby ever born.
This baby entered the Guinness Book of Records as one of the heaviest babies ever born in the world.
1. Anna Bates – gave birth to a 28-inch baby
in 1879 a Canadian woman named Anna Bates gave birth to a baby boy who weighed 22 pounds (9.98 kg) and was 28 inches long.
She gave birth naturally at her home in Ohio, USA.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Anna Bates herself was 7 feet 11 inches tall.
This baby entered the Guinness Book of Records as one of the largest newborns in the world.