15 Pound Baby In China Sets Huge Record
By: Pat Prescott
02/09/2012 05:46 PM ET
A 15 pound baby named Chun Chun was born in China, setting a new world record in the country, and the news comes only one week after announcing the birth of another heavy weight infant in Iowa.
The birth of the 15.5 pound baby is the heaviest on record in China and it now belongs to Chun Chun, who was born Saturday morning via c-section operation that lasted 20 minutes.
The previous record was 15.4 pounds belonging to 3 different babies born between 2008 and 2010.
Doctors say that the infant and its 29-year-old mother, Wang Yujuan, are doing well.
Yujuan said that her pregnancy felt different from the pregnancy she experienced with her daughter, who was born weighing in at 8 pounds 6 ounces.
“I clearly felt that my body was more clumsy than when I had been pregnant with my daughter. My belly was bigger than it was then,” Wang told reporters. “I guessed the baby would be between ten and 11 pounds. I never expected to hear that he weighs 15.5 pounds.”
Doctors have indicated babies born over 11 pounds are a rarity. The heaviest baby ever born on record according to the Guinness World Records was in 1879 to an Ohio women, the baby weighed 23 pounds 12 ounces but unfortunately it only survived 11 hours after birth.
Source: 15 Pound Baby China
Popular
- 15 Pound Baby In China Sets Huge Record
- Brain Tapeworms From Undercooked Pork In Humans
- Khloe Kardashian Refuses DNA Test For Biological Father
- Bond Girl Berenice Marlohe Says Skyfall Is ‘Best’ Film
- Casey Anthony Secret Hiding Place Found
- Record Low Mortgage Rates
- Bee Gees Cursed? Died Before They Should Have
- CNN Dog Poop Left In Mailbox By Executive Bob Furnad
- Texas Yearbooks Pulled Over ‘Derogatory’ Descriptions
- TLC Birth Moms Spark Outrage Over Cast Member
News
- Toms River Tap Water Green
- Homeless Man Gets Stab Wounds For Watching Porn
- Roach In McDonalds Hash Brown Goes Viral
- Bill Wisth Protest Fish Fry At Chuck’s Place
- Utah Teen Burglar Caught After Leaving Homework
- Man Steals Bobcat Tractor To Break Into Family Dollar
- Radioactive Man Gets Pulled Over After Setting Off Detector
- Yuri Ticuic – The Angry Husband Who Gets Lost In Woods
- Dolphins Killed At Swiss Zoo By ‘Heroine’ Drugs
- 70-Year-Old Virgin Is Ready To Lose It
Follow Us
Add our Facebook page to receive updates and participate in new tools and features. It's a great way to stay connected with all the latest news.
Receive daily bite-sized updates by following us on Twitter. Receive Tweet-sized 140-character updates on your mobile phone device or PC.
Subscribe to our daily RSS feed to get the latest national news stories. We offer a feed for every topic including business, entertainment, health, politics, science & technology, travel and more.