Soon-to-deliver mothers, look away. I'm serious. You don’t want to read this.
A mother in Guam gave birth this week to likely the biggest baby ever born in there, and probably the second or third biggest in recent memory in the world, anywhere.
How big was this ginormous child? FOURTEEN POUNDS. Four. Teen. And five ounces. Twice the size of the average baby, or about the size of a six-month old, people. It quite frankly makes the lady business twinge a little to just look at that picture over there.
Mother Janice Perez is diabetic, which can lead to a giant-sized baby if the condition is not well managed. It's also her eighth baby, but none of her other kids were bigger than nine pounds at birth. Amazing that giving birth to a record-setter can make nine pounds seem kinda small, but there it is.
Not-so-little Jayvin Jon is on oxygen, but otherwise doing really well. Perez says that he doesn't like being in the incubator because he doesn’t fit, and that he clearly likes to eat.
As for me? I'm days away from giving birth to number two and I really wish I had just not read this. But Janice Perez (who had a c-section and still doctors had a hard time getting him out) has my admiration for getting through a pregnancy, much less a birth, with a baby that big.
