if you think you have big babies...

[ashleep]

Check this guy out!

[Pepper]

Wow! That is big.

In the article it says "Obviously, he was born by cesarean". I wonder how the birth went. Did she try to birth vaginally or what?

I'm a believer that our body won't grow a baby that is too big for us so I wonder if she could have done it.

[mamabeard]

hahaha, that's what my second son looked like at one month!

aw, chubses.. they are so adorable..!

[ashleep]

Pepper, I was wondering the same thing myself.

[Past_VNE]

Pepper and Ashlee,

I'm with you...that's exactly what went through my head as well. Hmmmm....I wonder.

[ldsapmom]

Hello, Gestational Diabetes was my first thought.

Normally, I believe like you ladies, that our bodies won't grow a baby unless there was safe passage out, but come on, there's a reason babies aren't born weighing 16 pounds! I wonder if he would have been able to make it out on his own?

I attended a homebirth where baby weighed 12 pounds, 2 ounces, and that mom had a bit of trouble at the end, but not for longer than 5 minutes. She was in perfect health as well.

Doesn't Brazil have a high rate of c-section?

[Electra375]

Brazil does have a high c/s rate amoung the upper class. It is common practice for woman with money to have c/s rather than vaginal births. It is the "save the pelvic floor" scare tactic. My gyn told me this in August 2001 when I went to see him about whether or not I should try for a vbac -- he told me to have a 2nd c/s. I trusted him, but he didn't have all the facts, like how many children we were planning for.

Anyway,
The less afluent woman do have vaginal births with c/s being an emergancy option. And I have not heard whether that rate is high, but I assume it is.

Since a country rate would be skewed by the lack of distiction between the social classes, I don't think a country rate is an accurate rate of woman who just happen to need a c/s.

I really dislike the comment -- obviously by c/s, it was off color. I too wonder about GD.

Big or not, he's cute!

[darsmama]

16 pounds....wow. Sorry, but if *I* was the one gonna have a 16 pound baby, I'd be wheeled in for a c-section and cursing myself for eating too much sugar & drinking too much milk on the way!

My poor bladder aches imagining pushing that baby out!

[pamamidwife]

the biggest in my practice was 13lb 6oz. Then, later that same year, I had a 13lb baby.

neither mom got write-ups in the paper!

[thepeach80]

I read on another board it was from uncontrolled gd.

[OnTheFence]

There is no way anyone can convince me that a baby of that weight is normal or healthy. I also am not under the belief that you won't grow a baby bigger than you can have. It does happen and there is medical/scientific evidence that backs that up and shows that these HUGE babies can cause problematic deliveries. I know there are midwives, like Pam, who have delivered these huge babies with success, but I've read just as many stories from midwives that had to have their patients transferred later to discover that problems with the birth were because of these 11-12-13lb babies.

[Guest*]

Wow! He's a biggin' I would definitely be demanding a c-section for a baby that size.

I thought my aunt had a record... 11#, 13#, and 14# babies. All born vaginally. I think the 14# was stillborn. And she is an insulin-dependent diabetic.

Janna
My Web Site

[OnTheFence]

Originally Posted by jlpolzin

Wow! He's a biggin' I would definitely be demanding a c-section for a baby that size.

I thought my aunt had a record... 11#, 13#, and 14# babies. All born vaginally. I think the 14# was stillborn. And she is an insulin-dependent diabetic.

Janna
My Web Site

My MIL has a 43 weeker weighing 11.5lbs. He died after birth from all sorts of complications. It was a vaginal delivery and she said it was horrifying.

[liseux]

Cows, horses and all kinds of mammals build babies that are sometimes (rarely) too big for them. Why do humans want to believe in nature except for the part that its not always perfect? I`m sure if this woman only believed in her body enough she could have pushed him out, no problem---not.

[Guest*]

My MIL has a 43 weeker weighing 11.5lbs. He died after birth from all sorts of complications. It was a vaginal delivery and she said it was horrifying.

It was horrifying for my aunt (and the whole family) as well.

She was nearing 43 weeks around Christmas. She'd already made a stocking with the baby's name and had gifts for him. The doc didn't induce because he had plans for Xmas. He was going to do it afterward, but the baby had died. Then she had to carry her dead baby around for a few days (even after they confirmed he'd died) because the doc still had other things to do. He finally induced and the baby was born. How horrible knowing that you're giving birth to a baby that already died.

So sad.

Janna

[darsmama]

Not sure what that has to do with this Janna, but sad nonetheless..


there are quite a few women on here who have had 10, 11, & 12 pound babies.
With no complications...

I wouldn't feel confident at about 12 pounds...I think I'd be too fearful to give birth to a baby that size...

[khrisday]

I don't think my 10 lb 9 oz baby can compare in any way with a 16 pounder. I do think that is the body isn't healthy it can grow a baby that it can't get out. Did you see the SIZE of that kid?

[Keetsmama]

I would think that having a huge baby due to a health problem- like uncontrolled GD before they knew what it was- probably caused many women to die back in the old days. Midwives are great, and I trust nature, but like an earlier poster said, sometimes nature goes wrong.

I sort of thought when I saw the baby- poor baby, something is obviously wrong. I hope his health is not affected.

[LittleOne03]

From what I read in a different article the baby's size was due to uncontrolled GD. I also read that baby had to spend time in the NICU due to complications (lungs not mature, etc) as a result of the GD.

[Jemper]

Here's an article that talks about the diabetes.

http://lifestyle.iafrica.com/herlife...res/405250.htm