OMG. Imagine trying to push a 14.5lbs baby out. I hurt just thinking about it.
[H1]Mexicans crowd to see big baby 'Super Tonio' [/H1] [H2][FONT size=1]Whopping 14.5-pound newborn causes sensation in resort city of Cancun[/FONT][/H2]
[P class=textBodyBlack][SPAN id=byLine][/SPAN]CANCUN, Mexico - He is called "Super Tonio," and at a whopping birth weight of 14.5 pounds, the little fellow is causing a sensation in this Mexican resort city.
[P class=textBodyBlack][SPAN id=byLine][/SPAN]Cancun residents have crowded the nursery ward's window to see Antonio Vasconcelos, who was born early Monday by Caesarian section. The baby drinks 5 ounces of milk every three hours, and measures 22 inches in length.
[P class=textBodyBlack][SPAN id=byLine][/SPAN]"We haven't found any abnormality in the child, there are some signs of high blood sugar, and a slight blood infection, but that is being controlled so that the child can get on with his normal life in a few more days," Narciso Perez Bravo, the hospital's director, said on Wednesday.
[P class=textBodyBlack][SPAN id=byLine][/SPAN]In Brazil, a baby born in January 2005 in the city of Salvador weighed 16 pounds, 11 ounces at birth. According to Guinness World Records, the heaviest baby born to a healthy mother was a boy weighing 22 pounds, 8 ounces, born in Aversa, Italy, in September 1955.
[P class=textBodyBlack][SPAN id=byLine][/SPAN]Antonio's mother, Teresa Alejandra Cruz, 23, and father, Luis Vasconcelos, 38, said they were proud of the boy, and noted that Cruz had given birth to a baby girl seven years ago who weighed 11.46 pounds.
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