Okla. Woman Has 14-Pound, 3-Ounce Baby...WOW!

[Rainscents]

http://www.comcast.net/news/strange/index.jsp?cat=STRANGE&fn=/2005/12/20/288120.html

Big Baby! Wow, just wow! :wow:

Okla. Woman Has 14-Pound, 3-Ounce Baby
By Associated Press
Tue Dec 20, 7:39 PM

McALESTER, Okla. - Hospital officials at McAlester Regional Health Center say a 14-pound, 3-ounce baby delivered there is the largest ever born at the hospital. Lillian Elizabeth Ross was born Friday to Adrienne and Anthony Ross.

A hospital spokeswoman said the baby already wears clothes made for children six to nine months old.

[Fridays Child]

1. I wonder if the mom had gestational diabetes.

That'll make babies abnormally large at birth.

[Mairead]

7. That was my first thought, too (nt)

[atommom]

21. I'll bet she did. I'm eternally grateful that I didn't have that. nt

[kdmorris]

23. My first thought too

All of my girls were over 9 lbs (the last two were both 23 1/2 inches long and almost 10 lbs) at birth. I failed all three of my one hour glucose tests, but managed to pass the 3 hour tests. By today's standards (they were changed in 1995, 4 years after I delivered my last child), I'm told I would have had Gestational Diabetes with the last two.

Fast forward 15 years and now I have full blown diabetes. Wish I had known more then. Maybe I could have done something to ward it off for a while longer (though I'm not sure. All of the females on my father's side had Diabetes).

[proud2BlibKansan]

33. My sister had gestational diabetes

with both of her pregnancies too. They told her she has a 100% chance of developing diabetes at some point now.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

30. FYI - I had 9lb, and an 10lb and my level was normal....

so not necessarily. but likely. Big babies run in the family. ;)

14! wow

[theoldman]

2. Hope it was delivered cesarean.

[Warpy]

5. It was, there was no way that kid could have arrived

in the usual fashion. There was a picture, and the kid is wearing 6mo-9mo clothing.

I'd suspect gestational diabetes, too.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Seems to me.... passing a 12 pound bowling ball would be easier....

[shenmue]

4. Ouch

Congratulations...

:o

:7

[MissB]

Yes. Ouch.

[Skidmore]

6. All three of my grandchildren were over 11 lbs. and

my daughterd was tested for, but did not have, gestational diabetes. I have seen many instances of large newborns. If our food is contributing to larger adults, why would this not explain larger newborns as well since they "share" food with their mother?

[Ilsa]

28. Average birth weights are higher, but only slightly.

Nothing like this.

I had a 10-4 baby and a 9-4 baby. tested to gestational diabetes, but negative.

[NNadir]

8. At the same time as my son was born, there was a comparable baby

born at the same hospital.

It was amazing, because when you went into the nursery, the baby barely fit in the plastic crib the hospital had.

I felt bad for the baby. He was born massively obese. I hope he's alright. He must be 11 now.

[graywarrior]

9. My brother in law weighed 13 lbs at birth

[RagingInMiami]

12. How much does he weigh now?

How old is he now?

[graywarrior]

14. He's 50, 6'2" and a viking type fisherman in Nova Scotia

red hair and all. A real hottie.

[RagingInMiami]

16. So maybe this Oklahoma baby

Is going to grow up and become an offensive lineman for the Oklahoma Sooners.

[graywarrior]

17. Or a sensitive, viking type outdoorsman who treats his wife

like gold.

[RagingInMiami]

20. That too

[graywarrior]

24. Damn my sister to hell. She nabbed a good one.

Course mine ain't so bad

[RagingInMiami]

26. You have to get them when they're young

The bigger, the better.

[graywarrior]

36. She met him when they were 14. They knew immediately

they were getting married. Seven years later, they did. Thirty years later, they're still "in love" and have four adopted kids.

[RagingInMiami]

37. That is awesome

Good for them. I'm glad they're happy.

[AtomicKitten]

10. Damn.

[KharmaTrain]

11. Why Does Andrew Dice Clay Come To Mind?

...there once was a lady who lived in a shoe...she had so many kids her uterus fell out... <rimshot>

Ooops...sorry, that's for the lady in California with the 17 kids...sheesh.

Well...I was a 10 pounder...freaks those who've known me as I've always been slender...even while my contemporaries have developed spare tires.

Merry Holidays...

[napi21]

13. 40 years ago when my son was born, the lady in my hospital room

delivered a 14# 7 oz baby the same day. She was a really nice lady, but a very large woman. I don't mean fat, I mean large! If I remember right, she was almost 6" tall and not thin by any means. I was in labor for 11 hours and my son seighed 7#11oz, but I felt pretty lucky when she told me she had been in labor for 27 hours and finally delivered this "big girl". The baby was a real doll, but did look like a 3 month old already!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

31. When I had my 3rd, and he was only 8.7....

he felt so tiny compared to his brothers. :)

[Broken_Hero]

15. damn!..n/t

[Mend]

18. I had a ten pound son in the days before epidurals.....the pain

was interesting to say the least. The good news was that I gained practically nothing during the pregnancy although I ate everything I wanted and came through about 20 pounds lighter a few weeks after delivery. I can't even imagine a 14 pounder.

[marylanddem]

19. I'm laughin' - I like the term "14 pounder" n/t

[atommom]

22. That's twice as big as my largest child, who had to be delivered by

C-section. I admit it, I'd have made a godawful pioneer woman!

[xchrom]

25. sometimes i am a godawful pioneer woman.

[Maine Mary]

27. OMG!

I'm hearing more and more of these freakish stories. Is it possible that pollution could have anything to do with it? No really... Maybe someone should do a study.

I had a big baby too (relatively speaking). My daughter was 9lbs, 6oz's when I had her. I had just turned 19 and only weighed 122 myself when I gave birth. The jerk doctor hooked me up to a monitor so I couldn't move, gave me no drugs, wouldn't let me take in water or ice chips, YELLED at me that I wasn't pushing hard enough, and cut me TWICE! He had to use forceps and I guess it pissed him off.

But even he apologized (in his own fashion). He said, "I thought you weren't pushing till I saw the size of her". And off he went on his Merry misogynistic way. But I digress and I apologize for that. It just still pisses me off to this day.

But getting back to the 14lb Babe-Kong. It had to have been a C-Section...But either way that poor woman has my sympathies and I REALLY hope she gets plenty of help for awhile!

[LisaL]

29. Yes, the baby was delivered by C-section.

Maybe she will be a suma wrestler one day. LOL.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

32. I'm so sorry your time was so bad... I was lucky and had a great doctor.

I was 17, scared to death, and he made me laugh in the middle of labor.
9lbs 11oz, but like he said, I have 'good bones for birthin'.

[Rainscents]

35. Sounds like, you went through hell with your delivery.

I'm so sorry, Dr. didn't believe you. Sometimes, OBGY should be female and who had gone through child-birth. I'm not saying there aren't sympathetic male Dr., however, one can truly relate once one went through the child birth.

[KitSileya]

34. Wow? I'd have said ow!

The last couple of months of pregnancy must have been hell. My sister told me that the nurses at the hospital where she delivered her son called the 6kg+ babies they were getting more of coca-cola babies, because they were in many, if not most, cases caused by overweight and obesity in the mothers, as well as their diet during pregnancy, which was full of junk food. Babies aren't simply meant to be that big, as that makes them impossible to birth vaginally. I'm not talking about 6" women here, but average sized women who would normally give birth to 6lbs babies. This increase in birth weight must be a contributive factor to the rise in c-sections.

I was only 3lbs myself when I was born, but that was because I was the smallest of premature twins. My brother was 4lbs, so together we were a normal sized 7lbs baby.

[neebob]

38. I had an 11-pound, 4-ounce baby

Actually I should say I had him surgically removed. The newborn stuff only fit for about two weeks. He wasn't fat, either. He didn't walk until he was 15 months old, and I thought my arms were going to fall off.

He's now 16, 6'6" and 185. I'm 6'1", dad's 6'3". Big people have big babies.