Ouch!!!!!

[ABSTRUSE]

Woman Gives Birth to Giant Baby




SAO PAULO, Brazil - A woman in northeastern Brazil has given birth to what one doctor called a "giant baby," a boy weighing 16.7 pounds.

Francisca Ramos dos Santos, 38, gave birth to the healthy boy named Ademilton on Tuesday at a hospital in Salvador, 900 miles northeast of Sao Paulo. He was the largest baby born at the Albert Sabin Maternity Hospital in its 12-year history, the hospital said.


"Obviously the baby was born by Caesarean section," hospital director Rita Leal said. "Both mother and baby are doing just fine."


Ademilton "could truly be considered a giant baby, for he was born weighing what a six-month-old-baby normally weighs," pediatrician Luiz Sena Azul told the Correio da Bahia newspaper.


Santos has four other children — ages 9, 12, 14, and 15 — who were born weighing between 7.7 pounds and 11 pounds.


"She knew Ademilton would be a big baby, but not this big" Leal said. "She, her husband and the hospital staff were caught by surprise."


The average weight for newborns in Brazil is 7.7 pounds for boys and 6.6 pounds for girls.

 

[SensualCealy]

Does she flap in the wind when she bends over? lol
C

 

[ABSTRUSE]

That kid must need adult diapers.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

My first baby weighed 9.8 and he will be my last baby, for fear that the next one may weigh 16 lbs.

 

[cloudy]

Damn, and I thought my biggest was large at 9 lbs, 15 oz.

 

[Guest]

Oh, I get it.

 

[CharleyH]

Don't do this - you scare me! For a second, I thought you fell and bruised your ego.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Damn, and I thought my biggest was large at 9 lbs, 15 oz.

yikes, though it is kind of nice when the clothes you put on them to take them home in aren't too big. That woman in Brazil probably had to send someone to get the kid a 2T outfit.

 

[Guest]

procreation is the largest joke that our biological clocks play on us.
highly overrated in my opinion. howevah, i did play into its clutches twice... once was natural birth but a small baby..second was c-section to a 9lb4oz-er... damn stubborn breech kid...and shes still stubborn to boot!

 

[impressive]

All 3 of mine were delivered via c-section -- in spite of my dogged determination to have natural births. Hell, I even TAUGHT natural childbirth classes. (Some example I set, eh?)

I'll tell you what, though. The certification process to become an instructor (BirthWorks) was an order of magnitude more rigorous than my master's degree program.

 

[English Lady]

Natural here (only 3 1/2 hours of labour ) 7lb 6 1/2 oz but I just shouted OUCH! when i read that weight....I scared my hubby and baby by it *l*

I want to cross my legs now. It's aweird urge that i seem unable to resist*L*

 

[TheEarl]

Natural here (only 3 1/2 hours of labour ) 7lb 6 1/2 oz but I just shouted OUCH! when i read that weight....I scared my hubby and baby by it *l*

I want to cross my legs now. It's aweird urge that i seem unable to resist*L*

This is the exact physical reaction we blokes get whenever anyone tells the tale about a man who got his testicle ripped off by the bandsander.

(Yes, that is a real story. Googling for New Zealand and testicles and staple and sander should find you it although don't say I didn't warn you)

The Earl

 

[English Lady]

This is the exact physical reaction we blokes get whenever anyone tells the tale about a man who got his testicle ripped off by the bandsander.

(Yes, that is a real story. Googling for New Zealand and testicles and staple and sander should find you it although don't say I didn't warn you)

The Earl

It's ok -you're shortened version has brought tears to myeyes already.I'll skip looking into it more in depth *L*

 

[OhMissScarlett]

This is the exact physical reaction we blokes get whenever anyone tells the tale about a man who got his testicle ripped off by the bandsander.

(Yes, that is a real story. Googling for New Zealand and testicles and staple and sander should find you it although don't say I didn't warn you)

The Earl

Just the word "bandsander" irks me a little. Thanks anyway. I don't even want to know why you were Googling New Zealand and testicles and staple and sander in the first place.

 

[logophile]

I know a woman in Texas who had a 16 lound 4 ouncer a few years ago. Unmedicated vaginal homebirth. No tears. Baby was fine, mom was fine.

As a midwife, the largest baby I've personally seen has been 12 pounds even. Again at home with no tears. In October I attended a woman with a 10 pound 12 ouncer. Her biggest baby of three. Her only birth with no tears.

We typically see slightly larger babies at home, because our mamas eat so well! I would say that 8 1/2 pounds is our average. We get a little nervous with those teeny tiny six pounders! They seem so fragile in comparison!

I just wanted to post this stuff because I like to share my own personal belief that birth generally works. Most women will not grow a baby that is too big to get out! It just wouldn't make sense. There are exceptions to every rule and I am will always be the first to admit when I'm wrong!

By the way, Imp - I've heard that about BirthWorks before! I've also heard that Bradley's just as bad (or worse since you have to submit your stats to AAHCC!). I didn't know you were a CBE! You just get better and better the more I get to know you!!

 

[impressive]

By the way, Imp - I've heard that about BirthWorks before! I've also heard that Bradley's just as bad (or worse since you have to submit your stats to AAHCC!). I didn't know you were a CBE! You just get better and better the more I get to know you!!

I wouldn't classify BirthWorks as "just as bad" as Bradley (and that's not just choice loyalty speaking). I trained Bradley when pregnant with my first kid -- and they're downright militant and inflexible (i.e., you are a FAILURE if you don't have a completely unmedicated natural birth -- begone, lowest of the low! -- no exceptions).

BirthWorks, while admittedly "rigid" in its belief system (that birth "works" naturally without intervention), is much more accepting of our fears and frailties. They've just gotten a little too "mystical" for my tastes over that past few years. (Add to that a total disinterest in natural birth in my community. Medically managed birth is the standard here. *sigh*)

 

[LadyJeanne]

Maybe I'm on my own here, but this entire thread makes me cringe and think, "Drugs, I want drugs, and they'd better be really, really good."

But, I'm one of those people who would rather be unconscious for any dental procedure, even a cleaning. Wake me from my nap when it's done.

OUCH, indeed!