A mother from Armstrong County, Penn. delivered a baby girl who arrived at 13 pounds, 12 ounces and more than two feet tall.
The Cessna family delivered Addyson Gale Cessna at Armstrong County Memorial Hospital. Doctors told KDKA that Addyson is the largest baby they've ever delivered.
Earlier this year, British baby George King, weighing in at 15 pounds and 7 ounces, became the U.K.'s second largest infant to have ever been delivered vaginally, according to the Huffington Post. And that doesn't even come close to the record set by a boy born to mother Anna Bates in 1879. The Canadian baby weighed 23 pounds, 12 ounces, and was more than 30 inches long.
"I think as mothers, we all have that initial, oh my that must have hurt, and they're right. That's big." Dr. Yannie Narcisse, one of the delivering doctors, told KDSK. Addyson was delivered by c-section, according to the station.
According to an interview with biostatician Mary Helen Black in the Huffington Post last year, babies who are born too large are at an increased risk "for very serious consequences both during delivery, for the mother and the infant, as well as late in life - for the infant."
"There may be a general perception that, 'Oh, the baby's big, but so what? That's a misperception," she said. Fetal macrosomia is a condition when a baby is born weighing more than 8 pounds, 13 ounces and can be a result of maternal obesity and diabetes.
The parents, Michelle and Mark Cessna, said they knew their baby was going to be big, but did not anticipate that she would be more than 13 pounds.
"We knew we had a big baby, but not that big," Michelle told KDKA.
Both the baby and her mother are healthy and doing well.
