'Super Tonio' was born weighing a whopping 14.5lb

[Ali]

Pheeeeweeeee! That's some size! Find it disturbing that 'crowds are gathering to see' the baby....is it a hospital or a zoo??!

'Super Tonio' was born weighing a whopping 14.5lb

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.






'Super Tonio' lies behind another newborn in Jesus Kumate Rodriguez hospital. Photograph: Elizabeth Ruiz/EPA



"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.

[Rissask]

She must have had gestational diabetes, the mom.

Good thing it was a C-section.

[Luv2Dance]

Originally Posted by Rissask

She must have had gestational diabetes, the mom.

Good thing it was a C-section.

That was my thought too. There was an 11 pound baby in NICU when my daughter was there. Mother had diabetes. The poor baby wasn't doing well at all.

[MWC]

Thank God it was a c-section. otherwise I would have fainted from the empathy pains!

[Luv2Dance]

Originally Posted by MWC

Thank God it was a c-section. otherwise I would have fainted from the empathy pains!

Mee too, 7 pounds was enough for me and all of my children were born 3 to 6 weeks early.

[gingele]

Holy moly!!! I gave birth to two ten pounders (2 years apart, mind you) - both arrived the "old fashioned" way. With the first one I balked and took the epidural, second one was drug-free. Then again, I do have those baby-birthin' hips

[maas1114]

I just read this article on the Comcast Home page. All I could think of was Ouch!
Lucky for the mom that it was a C-section.

[mofi]

they also tested my mom for diabetes when my brother was born. he weighed 11.3, and held the record at the hopital for many years.

[mlsbkp]

What a big baby!! Thank goodness she had a c-section!

[Sunny20]

this was just in the news here 2 minutes ago... Looks very big