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| Gigantic baby ‘Jihad’ born in Berlin |
| 2011-11-26 |
| Doctors were left astounded after a gigantic baby set a new record for Germany’s heaviest-ever naturally born newborn Friday. The boy was named Jihad. The 6-kilogramme (13-pound) boy was born at Berlin’s Charité hospital to a 40-year-old, 240-kilogramme (528-pound) woman who also had gestational diabetes and most likely a metabolic disorder, according to doctors. Women suffering from untreated gestational diabetes – when a pregnant woman who doesn’t previously suffer from diabetes has excessively high blood sugar – tend to produce particularly overweight babies. Such newborns are often delivered via caesarean section because they can suffer from oxygen deficiency or shoulder dislocations during birth. But in this case the mother opted for a vaginal birth, which lasted seven hours and luckily went off without a hitch. “She insisted on a vaginal birth despite the very high risk,” said Wolfgang Henrich, the chief doctor at Charité’s obstetrics clinic. “We usually advise mothers carrying a child with an estimated weight of more than 4.5 kilos to opt for a caesarean section to avoid complications.” The boy will join nine brothers and four sisters – four of which had birth weights of more than five kilograms. The woman claimed she didn’t know of her diabetes, but doctors believe she was aware and ate too much sweet food. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #4 Jihad? That's about like naming your kid Adolph Hitler. And the Germans are oblivious to the situation. They would take the kid away if the parent named him Adolph H. There are none so blind as those who will not see. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-11-26 18:04 |
| #3 Let's hope he is a failure in living up to his name. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-11-26 11:00 |
| #2 Pshaw! - "Hoss Cartwright" - Dan Blocker - weighed 14 lb. at birth. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-11-26 10:02 |
| #1 Jihad? That's about like naming your kid Adolph Hitler. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-11-26 08:24 |