Have Big baby 19-pound worlds boy
A diabetic woman from the North Sumatra province gave birth to a 19-pound baby boy, who is believed to have broken the size record for the Southeast Asian country.
Akbar Risuddin — or "the Great" in Arabic — is a bouncing baby boy who could break a knee. Ani, his mother from Jakarta, Indonesia, delivered the 19.2-pound, 2-foot-long child on Monday via Caesarean section.
“This heavy baby made the surgery really tough, especially the process of taking him out of his mum’s womb,” Dr. Binsar Sitanggang told Agence France-Presse. “His legs were so big.”Akbar Risuddin — or "the Great" in Arabic — is a bouncing baby boy who could break a knee. Ani, his mother from Jakarta, Indonesia, delivered the 19.2-pound, 2-foot-long child on Monday via Caesarean section.
Big may be an understatement. The child was born at a birth weight that nears that of a year-old toddler, and in a picture taken of the baby alongside a normal birth-weight newborn, he seemed triple the size.
Doctors explained Ani’s diabetes likely caused the child to receive too much glucose in the womb, accounting for his massive size upon delivery — but so far, so good, in terms of the newborn’s health.
