A 27-year-old woman has given birth to a big bouncing baby boy who was so heavy it ‘took two people to lift him out’ even though she had no appetite during her pregnancy.
Amy Smit gave birth to baby Zagrys via c-section. Her son weighed 12.9lbs and measures 2ft tall.
This was a surprise to Amy and her husband Zac, 28, who said that the baby was so big he could not fit on the weighing scales.
“He was so big that it took two big people to lift him out,” Amy expressed. “There were all these really small ladies around me, and I heard one of them saying, ‘I need some help, he’s enormous’.
“When they lifted him above the screen for me and Zac to see, my first words were ‘b***** hell’.
“We knew he was going to be a tall baby because all the scans showed he was quite long, and both Zac and I are around the six-foot mark.
“But we had no idea he would be that big. He didn’t even fit on the scales when they went to weigh him, he was too long and wide. They had to make a makeshift plank thing to balance him on them.”
In the UK, the average birth weight of baby boys is about 7lb 8oz, the BBC reported.
Amy and Zac could not believe it when midwives lifted their son up.
“We had bought clothes for up to three months because we expected him to be tall,” Amy continued. “But none of them fit him. I had to send Zac out to buy six-nine month clothes for him.”
The couple’s first daughter, Lola, weighed 9lbs 2oz when she was born.
But Amy explained that she had no appetite during her pregnancy with her son. “I just went off food. I never fancied any meals. I couldn’t eat meat or anything. During my first pregnancy with Lola, I was snacking all day long, I couldn’t stop eating.”
“But with Zeik I just had no appetite. And I just keep thinking, imagine how much bigger he could have been if I had eaten lots!” she added.
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