VIDEO: These Are the Biggest Babies Ever Born!

While it seems logical that a big woman would give birth to a big child, sometimes even thin, small women can give birth to children that are weirdly, almost abnormally big.
These are the biggest babies that have ever been born until today and they have weights that vary between 16 pounds up to almost 20 pounds. Luckily, they don’t have any health problems. In fact, they are doing quite well.

Also, here is some information on birth weight, provided by Wikipedia.

Birth weight is the body weight of a baby at its birth. The average birth weight in babies of European heritage is 3.5 kilograms (7.7 lb), though the range of normal is between 2.5 kilograms (5.5 lb) and 5 kilograms (11 lb) (all but 5% of newborns will fall into this range). Babies of south Asian and Chinese heritage weigh about 240 grams (0.53 lb) less.

There have been numerous studies that have attempted, with varying degrees of success, to show links between birth weight and later-life conditions, including diabetes, obesity, tobacco smoking and intelligence. Low birth weight is associated with neonatal infection.

There are basically two distinct determinants for birth weight:

– The duration of gestation prior to birth, that is, the gestational age at which the child is born
– The prenatal growth rate, generally measured in relation to what weight is expected for any gestational age.

The incidence of birth weight being outside what is normal is influenced by the parents in numerous ways, including:

– Genetics
– The health of the mother, particularly during the pregnancy. Intercurrent diseases in pregnancy are sometimes associated with decreased birth weight. For example, Celiac disease confers an odds ratio of low birth weight of approximately 1.8.
– Environmental factors, including exposure of the mother to secondhand smoke
– Economic status of the parents gives inconsistent study findings according to a review on 2010, and remains speculative as a determinant.
– Other factors, like multiple births, where each baby is likely to be outside the AGA (appropriate for gestational age), one more so than the other.

Abnormalities

– A low birth weight can be caused either by a preterm birth (low gestational age at birth) or of the infant being small for gestational age (slow prenatal growth rate), or a combination of both.
– A very large birth weight is usually caused by the infant having been large for gestational age.

Studies have been conducted to investigate how a person’s birth weight can influence aspects of their future life. This includes theorised links with obesity, diabetes and intelligence.

A baby born small or large for gestational age (either of the two extremes) is thought to have an increased risk of obesity in later life, but it was also shown that this relationship is fully explained by maternal weight.

Babies that have a low birth weight are thought to have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes in later life.

Some studies have shown a direct link between an increased birth weight and an increased intelligence quotient. Increased birth weight is also linked to greater risk of developing autism.