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17 lb baby!

by Angie Felton Sep 27th 2007 9:34AM

Categories: Newborns, Pregnancy & birth, Media

When the newborn Nadia was placed on the scale, she broke not only a family record, but a Guinness World one: the C-section baby weighed in at a whopping 17.1 lbs!

It's almost as if Nadia knew from the start she'd have to do something to make her birth stand out from those of her eleven older siblings'.

"We were all simply in shock," said Nadia's mother, Tatyana Barabanova, 43. "He (the father) couldn't say a thing -- he just stood there blinking."

The Russian mother said her pregnancy diet consisted of potatoes, noodles, and tomatoes and none of her other children were this large. So far there has been no explanation why Nadia came out the size of a six- or seven-month-old.

I was always instructed not to lift anything heavier than the baby after my C-sections. For this mom, that would mean pouring a little bit of dog food out of the 25 lb bag before picking it up! Ack!

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