Post by Clemo on Feb 3, 2007 3:46:42 GMT -5
Mexico marvels at super-sized baby
'Super Tonio' lies behind another newborn in Jesus Kumate Rodriguez hospital.
As the picture clearly shows, Antonio Vasconcelos - he's the one at the back - is no ordinary new-born baby.
Dubbed "Super Tonio", he startled staff at the Jesus Kumate Rodriguez hospital in Cancun, Mexico, not to mention his mother, by arriving via caesarean section on Monday weighing a whopping 6.6kg (14lb 8oz), roughly twice the average weight for a newborn baby.
Crowds have gathered at the windows of the hospital's nursery ward to marvel at Antonio, who is already 56cm (22in) long and drinks prodigious amounts of milk.
"We haven't found any abnormality in the child, there are some signs of high blood sugar, and a slight blood infection, but that is being controlled so that the child can get on with his normal life in a few more days," said Narciso Perez Bravo, the hospital's director.
Antonio's parents, 23-year-old Teresa Alejandra Cruz and Luis Vasconcelos, 38, are remarkably unfazed, noting that their daughter had weighed a not-insignificant 5.2kg at birth.
"It's good, because now with this one, we'll have a pair [of big babies]," Mr Vasconcelos said.
Despite Antonio's size, he is not the biggest baby born in recent years.
In January 2005, a Brazilian baby arrived weighing 7.6kg. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the heaviest baby was a boy born to a healthy mother in Italy in September 1955 weighing 10.2kg.
www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2003489,00.html
'Super Tonio' lies behind another newborn in Jesus Kumate Rodriguez hospital.
As the picture clearly shows, Antonio Vasconcelos - he's the one at the back - is no ordinary new-born baby.
Dubbed "Super Tonio", he startled staff at the Jesus Kumate Rodriguez hospital in Cancun, Mexico, not to mention his mother, by arriving via caesarean section on Monday weighing a whopping 6.6kg (14lb 8oz), roughly twice the average weight for a newborn baby.
Crowds have gathered at the windows of the hospital's nursery ward to marvel at Antonio, who is already 56cm (22in) long and drinks prodigious amounts of milk.
"We haven't found any abnormality in the child, there are some signs of high blood sugar, and a slight blood infection, but that is being controlled so that the child can get on with his normal life in a few more days," said Narciso Perez Bravo, the hospital's director.
Antonio's parents, 23-year-old Teresa Alejandra Cruz and Luis Vasconcelos, 38, are remarkably unfazed, noting that their daughter had weighed a not-insignificant 5.2kg at birth.
"It's good, because now with this one, we'll have a pair [of big babies]," Mr Vasconcelos said.
Despite Antonio's size, he is not the biggest baby born in recent years.
In January 2005, a Brazilian baby arrived weighing 7.6kg. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the heaviest baby was a boy born to a healthy mother in Italy in September 1955 weighing 10.2kg.
www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2003489,00.html
