JAKARTA (AFP)
Staff at a Jakarta hospital were shocked when a newborn baby boy was pulled out of his mother's womb weighing a whopping 6.9 kilogram's (15.2 pounds), local press reported Tuesday.
The baby boy was delivered by Caesarean section and is Indonesia's heaviest ever baby and measuring 62 cm long.
The baby was born at a private maternity clinic on the outskirts of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, a nurse on duty there said.
"He was born at about 4:30 pm (0930 GMT) on Monday, but because of respiratory problems, the baby was taken to Fatmawati (hospital) a few hours later," the nurse said.
He is the fourth son of a couple living in South Jakarta and the 37-year-old mother had gestational diabetes, which puts babies at risk of being heavier than normal.
Indonesia's previous heaviest baby, according to the Indonesian Museum of Records website, was born in East Java's Surabaya and weighed 6.4 kilogram's.
"He has the weight of a four-month-old infant. Normally, a newborn baby measures 2 to 3 kg in weight and 48 to 50 cm in length," the hospital's spokesperson Lily Amalia was quoted by leading news website Detikcom as saying.
Doctors were still performing thorough medical checkups on the baby to find any abnormalities, she said.
