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Mom's 12th baby is a whopper at 17.1 pounds
Russian ate potatoes, noodles during pregnancy; all her other kids weighed in at 11-plus pounds
Sep 27, 2007 04:30 AM
BARNAUL, Russia–A Siberian woman who gave birth to her 12th child – doing more than her fair share to stem Russia's population decline – was stunned to find that little Nadia weighed in at a massive 17.1 pounds.
Nadia was delivered Sept. 17 by caesarean section in a hospital in the Altai region, joining eight sisters and three brothers, a local reporter said.
"We were all simply in shock," Tatyana Barabanova, the baby's 43-year-old mother, told the reporter.
"What did the father say? He couldn't say a thing – he just stood there blinking.
And what was Barabanova's eating regimen during the pregnancy?
"I ate everything; we don't have the money for special foods so I just ate potatoes, noodles and tomatoes," she said, adding that Nadia's siblings all weighed over 11 pounds at birth.
Nadia's size is startling but far from record-smashing.
Guinness World Records lists a 22.5-pound boy born in Italy in 1955, and a 23.8-pound boy born in the U.S. in 1879 who survived only 11 hours. The average weight for most healthy newborn babies is 7.06 pounds, according to the World Health Organization.
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