What is the heaviest baby ever born?

The Guinness World record for the heaviest baby to survive infancy belongs to a boy weighing 22 pounds, 8 ounces, who was born in Aversa, Italy, in 1955. In 2019, a New York woman named Joy Buckley gave birth to a daughter who weighed 15 pounds, 5 ounces.
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What is the lightest baby ever born?

Little Kwek Yu Xuan was born via emergency C-section weighing about as much as a softball — just 7.5 ounces, or 0.4 pounds — making her by many accounts the lightest baby ever delivered.
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What size is the biggest baby ever born?

The boy was born on January 18, 1879, and survived only 11 hours. He was the largest newborn ever recorded, at 23 pounds 9 ounces (10.7 kg) and nearly 30 inches tall (ca. 75 cm); each of his feet was six inches (150 mm) long. For this he was posthumously awarded a Guinness World Record.
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What is the maximum weight a baby can be born?

Babies come in all shapes and sizes

More than 9 out of 10 babies born at term (37 to 40 weeks) weigh between 2.5kg and 4.5kg. If your baby weighs 4.5kg or more at birth, they are considered larger than normal. This is also known as 'fetal macrosomia' and large for gestational age (LGA).
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Can you deliver a 9 pound baby naturally?

Although most of these babies are born healthy--women around the world have vaginally delivered babies of 9, 10, and 11 pounds without problems--birth-related complications can include a prolonged labor, intolerance to labor, shoulder dystocia, and neonatal low blood sugar.
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What causes a big baby?

Genetic factors and maternal conditions such as obesity or diabetes can cause fetal macrosomia. Rarely, a baby might have a medical condition that makes him or her grow faster and larger.
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What is the longest anyone has been pregnant?

30 Facts About Pregnancy
  • 30 facts about pregnancy. The longest recorded pregnancy was 375 days. According to a 1945 entry in Time Magazine, a woman named Beulah Hunter gave birth in Los Angeles nearly 100 days after the average 280-day pregnancy. ...
  • 5 myths. Myth: The shape of your belly can predict the gender of your baby.
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What is the oldest woman to have a baby?

Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara is the oldest verified mother; she was aged 66 years 358 days when she gave birth to twins; she was 130 days older than Adriana Iliescu, who gave birth in 2005 to a baby girl. In both cases the children were conceived through IVF with donor eggs.
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What is the biggest baby born in 2020?

A New York state mother is recovering after giving birth to a record 15-pound baby girl last week. Harper Buckley came into the world weighing in at 15-pounds, 15-ounces and measuring about 23-inches long.
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What is the youngest baby to talk?

'World's Youngest Talking Baby' Says Hello at Eight Weeks in Incredible Footage
  • Little Charlie said his first words at just eight weeks old (Credit: SWNS)
  • Charlie's little sister Lottie spoke at 6 months (Credit: SWNS)
  • Caroline and Nick are two proud parents (Credit: SWNS)
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What is the youngest baby to walk?

Freya Minter is the youngest baby on record to walk!

Freya Minter was six months old when she took her first steps, leaving the rest of her age bracket in the dust.
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What's the shortest pregnancy that survived?

— An Alabama boy who weighed less than a pound at birth after his mother went into labor at only 21 weeks and one day of gestation has been certified as the world's most premature baby to survive.
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Can you have a 14 lb baby?

Dr. Robert Barbieri, chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, said in a previous interview about one out of 1,000 babies could weigh 11 pounds, and one out of every 100,000 could weigh 14 pounds.
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Can you give birth to a 10 pound baby naturally?

A: A baby that weighs more than 8 lbs 13 ounces at the time of delivery is considered a "macrosomic" or "large for gestational age" baby. There are certainly women delivering all over the world that are able to deliver these larger babies vaginally.
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What is the first color a baby can see?

Young babies are indeed capable of seeing colors, but their brains may not perceive them as clearly or vividly as older children and adults do. The first primary color your baby can see is red, and this happens a few weeks into life.
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What is the youngest father?

World's youngest fathers on record
  • The youngest father in the world is reportedly a boy from China, who, at 9 fathered a child with an 8-year-old girl. This occurred in 1910.
  • There is also a 10-year-old father recorded in the USA, no details about the mother. ...
  • There are two recorded 11-year-old fathers.
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Who is the oldest father?

Ramjit Raghav is reportedly the oldest father in the world. In 2012, Raghav fathered his second son at the age of 96. He first garnered international media attention in 2010 when his first son was born and Raghav claimed that he was about 94 years old at the time.
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Who is the oldest man to father a child?

The oldest ever man to father a child was reportedly Les Colley (1898 - 1998, Australia), who had his ninth child a son named Oswald to his third wife at the age of 92 years 10 months.
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Who has the most kids in the world?

The first wife of peasant Yakov Kirillov from the village of Vvedensky, Russia, gave birth to 57 children in a total of 21 births. She had four sets of quadruplets, seven sets of triplets and ten sets of twins.
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How long is the world record for sleeping?

In October of 2017, Wyatt Shaw from Kentucky fell asleep for 11 days. He was just seven years old and doctors ran several tests with no conclusive explanations.
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Can two pregnant ladies meet?

Yes. It completely safe for two pregnant ladies to stay together.
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How big does a baby have to be for cesarean?

ACOG says ultrasound is no better than a provider's exam in estimating fetal weight, suspected macrosomia should not be an indication for induction of labor, and planned C-sections shouldn't be performed unless the estimated fetal weight is 10 pounds or more in diabetic women or 11 pounds or more in other women.
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How long do C sections take?

How long does the cesarean section procedure take? The typical c-section takes about 45 minutes. After the baby is delivered, your healthcare provider will stitch up the uterus and close the incision in your abdomen.
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Are bigger babies easier to deliver?

Your body goes through exactly the same process of labour regardless of your baby's size. In fact, the size of your baby has no influence whatsoever on the first stage of labour.
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Is baby Saybie alive?

Tiny Baby. Baby Saybie was born at 23 weeks in San Diego. She's finally gone home after 5 months in intensive care.
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