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• Big Babies and Even Bigger Babies

  After giving birth to my second daughter, a whopper at nearly 11 pounds, I’m always interested in the details of big babies, especially the extra super-sized newborns that make mine look like a peanut. Like this one – a 14-and-a-half pounder born six months ago to a fairly wee mama (5 feet tall and slim). She looked full term at five months pregnant, and by the time she was 37 weeks along (that's her in the picture), her doctors in the U.K. insisted she head down to surgery for a c-section. The surgical staff gasped when they pulled little, er, big Jack out and held him and his linebacker shoulders and roly-poly legs, arms and bloated torso up to show his parents. Jack was suffering ...         Read More... Posted Nov 26 2007, 10:06 AM by Madeline Holler with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: newborn, large babies, sick kids, health and kids, U.K. moms

• Russian OB to Mom: That Damn Big Baby!

  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.       Read More... Posted Sep 26 2007, 01:19 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: birth, Large families, large babies, c-section, Russia

• 14.5 Pound Baby: Large Babies Don't Always Rule

  They call him Super Baby Tonio and he was born weighing 14.5 pounds in Cancun Mexico.  Apparently, crowds are visiting the nursery to take a look at the big babe who consumes more than an average amount of milk and is obviously larger than your average kid.  Doctors report that the little boy shows signs of higher than normal blood sugar but is otherwise 'normal.'  Large babies are becoming more common and it is not a good sign.  Gestational diabetes (an excess of maternal blood sugar during pregnancy) is one of the primary causes of overly large babies, and can lead to other complications including miscarriage and birth defects. Women at risk for gestational diabetes are those 20% or more over their ideal body weight, women with history of large babies (over 9 pounds), being a member of a high-risk ethnic group, or intolerance for glucose during a standard prenatal test.  Large babies like Super Baby Tonio may be newsworthy,  but they aren't necessarily hale and hearty. Posted Feb 01 2007, 08:13 PM by Rachael Brownell (Redsy) with | with no comments Filed under: large babies, Super Baby Tonio, risk factors of large babies, gestational diabetes