A Siberian woman gave birth today to a live baby water buffalo.
Actually, she had a baby girl – her 12th child – who weighed almost 8 kilograms (metric conversions after the jump. Suffice it to say, that child was huge!).
The parents are stunned. Stunned. As is anyone reading this report who has ever had a full-term fetus rubbing against their spines and kicking at their livers.
Big baby Nadia joins her eights sisters and three brothers, all of whom weighed at least 11 pounds at birth, but nothing like their youngest sibling who broke the scales at 17.1 pounds.
Nadia was delivered via c-section. Ladies, you can uncross your legs. But look out for geysers when mom’s milk comes in.
Mom says she didn’t eat anything special – noodles, potatoes, tomatoes. What, by the bushel? Deep fried with cheese?
I wonder if this woman has the mom gene? She’s definitely doing her part – if a bit extravagantly – to reverse the population decline in her part of the world.
