A woman has given birth to the world's biggest baby girl. The newborn, who was delivered by Caesarian section, weighed in at 15lbs. Nandini, 19, who goes only by her first name, welcomed her first child, a daughter, by caesarean section on Monday evening at a government-run hospital in Hassan in southern state Karnataka.
While the young mother was shocked by the size of the new arrival, local health officer Dr Venkatesh Raju, hailed her as a "miracle." Dr Venkatesh Raju, the local health officer, said: "In my 25 years of experience, I had never seen such a big baby. “I believe she is not only the heaviest baby born in India but the heaviest baby girl ever born in the world."
Big Babies:
The last large baby to be born in India was 14.77lbs. Setting a new world record, the new arrival has deposed the former holder of the title of the world's largest baby girl, Carisa Rusack, who was born weighing 14lb 5oz in Massachusetts in 2014. In 2015, a baby in Florida weighed in at 14lb and was declared the heaviest baby to be born in the US state.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the heaviest baby ever born weighed a staggering 23lb 12oz in Canada in 1879, but the baby died 11 hours later. The record for the heaviest, surviving baby in the world was a boy born in Italy in 1955, who weighed 22lb 8oz.
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