Born on Friday in Leipzig, Germany, baby Jasleen became the heaviest baby in the country, weighing 13lb 8oz and measuring 23in long, but even more surprising was that her mother, only identified as Maria, delivered the baby vaginally.
Heavy babies are often attributed to maternal obesity and diabetes, among other factors, and the medical term for newborns weighing more than 8 pounds, 13 ounces is "fetal macrosomia." In Jasleen's case, doctors said her size is due to an undiagnosed case of gestational diabetes.
The 31-year-old baby's mother said that she was shocked to see just how big of a baby she had delivered. "My 11-year-old daughter was a third of her weight, my two-year-old son a little under that. My stomach was a lot bigger this time around but I had no idea there was such a giant inside," Maria expressed.
Both she and the baby are doing well but Jasleen remains in neonatal intensive care at Leipzig University Hospital while doctors monitor her.
Jasleen, however, is not the heaviest baby born this year. According to Huffington Post, George King, who was born in March to a British couple, weighed in at 15 pounds, 7 ounces. He was also delivered vaginally. And on July 11, Pittsburgh-area woman Michelle Cessna gave birth to Addyson Gale Cessna, who was born at 13 pounds, 12 ounces, and measured 25 inches via C-section.
However, the Guinness Book of World Records says the heaviest baby ever born weighed 23 pounds, born to Anna Bates in 1879.
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