Record 6.2kg baby born naturally in Spain
Just a week after a baby boy weighing 6.1kilograms was born naturally in Germany, an even heavier baby girl has been naturally delivered in Spain.
Maria Lorena is believed to be doing well but is in the neonatal care unit after what doctors described as an ‘uncomplicated’ birth at the Hospital Marina Salud in Denia, Alicante, reports the BBC.
The 40-year-old mum, Maxime Marin, a British woman who lives in Spain with her partner, said she did not even need an epidural during the birth of 6.2kg Maxime.
That is almost double the average weight of a newborn girl.
“In my 40-year professional career I have never known of any case of a birth with this weight by natural childbirth,” said , Dr Javier Rius, head of the hospital's department of obstetrics and gynaecology.
"We are all very satisfied with the work which we carried out."
Just last week baby Jasleen was delivered naturally at the University Hospital in Leipzig, without the aid of a Caesarean section.
However, both babies still fall short of the heaviest-ever newborn.
According to the Guinness Book of Records, Anna Bates gave birth to a boy weighing 10.8kg in Ohio in 1879, but the baby died 11 hours later.
The heaviest baby born to a natural mother is reported to be a boy weighing 10.2kg, born to Italian mum Carmelina Fedele in 1955.
