KISARAN, Indonesia — Indonesia’s heaviest-ever newborn drew curious crowds Friday to a hospital where the boy named Akbar – or the Great in Arabic – came into the world at a record 19.2 pounds.
Akbar Risuddin was born to a diabetic mother in a 40-minute cesarean delivery that was complicated because of his unusual weight and size, Dr. Binsar Sitanggang said.
Crowds pushed to get a peek of the extraordinary boy, who measured nearly 24 inches when he was born Monday, at the Abdul Manan hospital in the northern town of Kisaran on the island of Sumatra.
The baby’s extreme weight was the result of excessive glucose from his mother during pregnancy, Dr. Sitanggang said.
“He is greedy and has a strong appetite, nursing almost nonstop,” the doctor said.
The boy was the third child of Hasanuddin, 50, and mother Ani, 41. His two “little” brothers weighed 11.6 pounds (5.3 kilograms) and 9.9 pounds (4.5 kilograms) at birth.
The former Indonesian record holder was a 14.7-pound baby boy born on the outskirts of the capital, Jakarta, in 2007.
Guinness World Records cites the heaviest baby as being born in the U.S. in 1879, weighing 23.75 pounds. However, it died 11 hours after birth. The book also cites 22.5-pound babies born in Italy in 1955 and in South Africa in 1982.
SOURCE: KOMO News
Posted on September 26th, 2009 at 12:25 pm by Lin McNulty
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