kakatiya Posted August 1, 2013 Report Posted August 1, 2013 [img]http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1270826/thumbs/o-JASLEEN-GERMANY-LARGEST-BABY-570.jpg?7[/img][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Century, Times, serif][size=4]The medical term for babies born weighing more than 8 pounds, 13 ounces is [/size][/font][/color][url="http://www.aafp.org/afp/2001/0115/p302.html"]"fetal macrosomia,"[/url][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Century, Times, serif][size=4] and heavy babies are often [/size][/font][/color][url="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/14/pregnancy-weight_n_1776118.html"]attributed to maternal obesity and diabetes[/url][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Century, Times, serif][size=4], among other factors. In Jasleen's case, doctors said her size is due to an undiagnosed case of gestational diabetes, [/size][/font][/color][url="http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/geburt-in-leipzig-frau-bringt-sechs-kilo-baby-zur-welt-a-913417.html"]reports the German paper Der Spiegel,[/url][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Century, Times, serif][size=4] which adds that both baby and Mom are doing well, though Jasleen remains in the hospital.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Century, Times, serif][size=4] Until Jasleen's birth last week the title of Germany's "heaviest" or "largest" baby[url="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/28/jihad-baby_n_1116406.html"]belonged to one named Jihad[/url], who was born in November 2011 and weighed in at 13 pounds.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Century, Times, serif][size=4] Jasleen, however, is not the heaviest baby born this year. We can't forget about about George King, [url="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/27/baby-george-king_n_2967517.html"]who was born in March to a British couple and weighed in at 15 pounds, 7 ounces[/url] -- and again, yes, he was delivered vaginally.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Century, Times, serif][size=4] And on July 11, Pittsburgh-area woman Michelle Cessna gave birth to Addyson Gale Cessna, who [url="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/14/addyson-gale-cessna-13-pound-12-ounce-baby_n_3595071.html"]was born at 13 pounds, 12 ounces, and measured 25 inches[/url] via C-section.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Century, Times, serif][size=4] While [url="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/14/crista-hebel-12-pound-preemie_n_1424881.html"]big babies seem to be on the rise[/url], the Guinness Book of World Records says the[url="http://metro.co.uk/2009/09/24/biggest-baby-shock-for-diabetic-mother-in-indonesia-443865/"]heaviest baby ever born[/url] weighed 23 pounds, born to Anna Bates in 1879. No other newborn has tipped that scale yet, but here are seven who have come close.[/size][/font][/color]
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