A baby boy named Chun Chun, who was born to mother Wang Yujuan in Xinxiang, is possibly China’s heaviest baby on record with a whopping weight of 15.52lbs (17.04kgs) at birth. The arrival was auspiciously timed on Saturday (5 February 2012), just after the start of the lunar New Year, the Year of the Dragon; hence, Chun Chun is considered as “Little Dragon”. Reportedly, both mother and baby are in good condition in a local hospital in Xinxiang city, Henan province. The delighted father told the local media that “My wife was not different from other pregnant women. She ate and drank normally as she should. But she's given birth to such a big, fat son” and “Today is the first day of spring in the Chinese calendar and he's a 'dragon baby'. I feel very happy”
Chun Chun, a baby boy born weighing 15.5 pounds in Xinxiang, central China at birth, is the heaviest Chinese baby on record in China
The 29-year-old mother Wang said that she felt something different with this pregnancy than with her first pregnancy of now 6-year-old daughter
Wang stated, “I clearly felt that my body was more clumsy than when I had been pregnant with my daughter. My belly was bigger than it was then, I guessed the baby would be between ten and 11 pounds. I never expected to hear that he weighs 15.5 pounds”
Chun Chun's mother delivered the super-size baby by Caesarean section in a local hospital in Xinxiang city, Henan province on Saturday which lasted around 20 minutes
Previously, China's heaviest known newborns were three other babies born between 2008 and 2010 who weighed exactly 15.4 pounds
The couple also has a six-year-old daughter who weighed just over 4kg when she was born. Shang Lili, head of the obstetrics department at the hospital where Chun Chun was born, said the baby was "twice as heavy" as a normal newborn
According to a recent study, what causes high birth weight is the baby's genes, or genes shared between mother and child; in other words, the chance a baby will weigh more at birth is greatly increased if the mother gains excessive weight during pregnancy
The heaviest birth listed by Guinness World Records was a baby boy born in 1879 in Ohio, who weighed 23 pounds 12 ounces at birth but who died 11 hours afterward
Chunchun is pictured with the proud and delighted father
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