The biggest baby ever born in India has been welcomed into
the world, thanks to 36-year-old mom Firdous Khatun.
Her bouncing boy, Raja Ram Kalawati, weighed in at a cool
14.77 pounds, and despite his hefty size, the natural (yes, natural) birth was
seamless. She was in delivery for just 15 minutes before Raja greeted her.
Firdous, whose eight other children all weighed eight pounds
at birth, was, to put it simply, surprised by not-so-little Raja.
Dr Anjana Gupta, who delivered the child, told the Mirror
"He is a miracle baby. In my 21 years of experience, I had never seen a
newborn as big as him."
"We could not believe how, despite his big size, he
smoothly came out. Though his shoulders got stuck for few seconds, within three
minutes he was in my hands. He was so big that he did not fit in my hands. He
is a beautiful baby."
"Though he had respiratory issues initially, both he and
his mother are now doing fine. Strangely, the mother is not diabetic which
usually causes the risk of obesity in newborn. We do not know why the baby is
so big but he is healthy and all his parameters are fine."
Raja will join his 8 other siblings when he's released from
the hospital in a few days.
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