Thu, January 20, 2005
Newborn baby a 'giant'
By AP
SAO PAULO, Brazil -- A woman in northeastern Brazil has given birth to what one doctor called a "giant baby," a boy weighing 7.57 kilograms (16.7 pounds). Francisca Ramos dos Santos, 38, gave birth to the healthy boy named Ademilton on Tuesday at a hospital in Salvador, 1,450 kilometres northeast of Sao Paulo.
He was the largest baby born at the Albert Sabin Maternity Hospital in its 12-year history, the hospital said.
"Obviously the baby was born by caesarean section," hospital director Rita Leal said.
Ademilton "could truly be considered a giant baby, for he was born weighing what a six-month-old-baby normally weighs," pediatrician Luiz Sena Azul told the Correio da Bahia newspaper.
The average weight for newborns in Brazil is 3.5 kilograms (7.7 pounds) for boys and three kilograms (6.6 pounds) for girls.
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