![]() ![]() Ethnicity-Some ethnic groups are believed to have larger babies on average, including Hispanic women.In the same respect, women who have already had one or more large babies often continue to deliver big babies in subsequent births. Does this mean your baby will be large simply because you or a sibling was a big baby? No, but your doctor will probably ask you questions about your own birth weight and your mother's pregnancy and birth experience. Genetics-In many cases, big babies seem to run in families.What causes some babies to be so large? There are actually several reasons or factors that can lead to a large baby at birth. The average weight of a newborn is considered about 7 ½ pounds, so a baby weighing more than 9 pounds, 15 ounces is considered quite large. Their older daughter was four pounds smaller than her record-breaking sister (Carisa is the largest baby to have been born at Massachusetts General Hospital, but if you do that math, the smaller sister was still pretty darn large at birth! The Massachusetts parents seem to only do big babies. Bryan and Caroline Rusack welcomed baby Carisa in 2014.The big baby weighed 16 pounds and 2 ounces at the time of his arrival, which was two weeks before his intended due date! California mommy, Sosefina Tagula, delivered her son, Sammisano, in 2013.Francisca dos Santos delivered a 17-pound son, which is the average size of a six-month-old baby. In 2005, the largest baby ever born in Brazil arrived.The baby weighed in at 16 pounds and nine ounces. In 2007, a Cape Town, South African mother named Cathleen Abels gave birth to a little girl named Chesner.In 2004, a Siberian woman named Tatyana delivered a daughter who weighed 17 pounds and five ounces.These record-breaking babies likely made their mothers think twice before ever deciding to become pregnant again! ![]() Recent decades have seen a wave of larger than average children born. Sadly, the baby only referred to as "Babe," passed away at eleven hours old. Parents everywhere, take a moment to allow those stats to sink in. It was reported that when Anna's water broke, some six pounds of amniotic fluid was released from her body. The newborn weighed a whopping 22 pounds at birth and measured 28 inches long. The couple had previously lost a daughter during childbirth.Īnna delivered a son in 1879 at home in Seville, Ohio. Their record-breaking baby wasn't their first child. They dated for two years before tying the knot in front of onlookers. Both Anna and Martin reportedly stood well over seven feet tall (she at 7 feet 11 inches and he, at 7 feet 9 inches,) so a product of their union was likely to be large but record-breaking large? No one could expect that?!īefore breaking baby records, Anna and Martin both worked the circus circuit, appearing in sideshows and making waves with their impressive size statistics. ![]() The expectant pair themselves were no strangers to largeness. Per the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest baby to have ever entered the world was born to a Canadian mother named Giantess Anna Bates and her husband, Martin Van Buren Bates. ![]()
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