17 pound baby girl born in Siberia (Yikes!)

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Mom births her 12th baby — 17-pound Nadia
Siberian woman unaware of newborn's weight until Caesarean section
Image: Nadia
Andrey Kasprishin / Reuters
Baby girl Nadia — who weighed 17 pounds, 1 ounce after birth — lies in a maternity ward in the Siberian city of Barnaul.


Updated: 2:58 p.m. ET Sept 26, 2007

BARNAUL, Russia - A Siberian woman who gave birth to her 12th child — doing more than her fair share to stem Russia's population decline — was stunned to find that little Nadia weighed in at a massive 17 pounds, 1 ounce.

Nadia was delivered by Caesarean section in the local maternity hospital in the Altai region on September 17, joining eight sisters and three brothers, a local reporter said.

"We were all simply in shock," said Nadia's mother, Tatyana Barabanova, 43. "What did the father say? He couldn't say a thing — he just stood there blinking."
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"I ate everything, we don't have the money for special foods so I just ate potatoes, noodles and tomatoes," she told the reporter, adding that all her previous babies had weighed more than 11 pounds.

The Guinness World Records lists a 22 pound, 4 ounce baby boy born in Italy in 1955, and a 23 pound, 8 ounce baby boy who was born in the United States in 1879 but died 11 hours later.

The average weight for most healthy newborn babies is around 7 pounds, 6 ounces, according to World Health Organization figures.

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Maybe a little local spirit, too?

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Maybe a little local spirit, too?

I don't know what that means but it sounds good to me!