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Germany's heaviest newborn weighs six kilograms

2 Aug, 2013

According to media reports, on the 25th of July, Germany's heaviest baby was born. This baby now holds the record for being the country's largest and heaviest baby. The delivery was reportedly completely normal.

"We anticipated that the child would be big," Holger Stepan, chief of obstetrics at the University Hospital Leipzig told reporters. "We prepared in advance by assembling a special team (of doctors and midwives) to be ready for any possible complications," he added.

The report also added, "The girl's mother suffered from gestational diabetes, which, when untreated or uncontrolled, can cause babies to be born larger than normal."

"Her condition was not discovered until the mother checked herself into the hospital while in labor. She had not previously been a patient there," it said. 

Heaviest baby: How big is Jasleen exactly?

At the University Hospital in Leipzig, baby Jasleen was born. Jasleen weighs exactly 6.1 kilograms, and is 57.5 centimetres tall. After birth, the baby is currently at in the neonatal care unit with her mother.

Both the mother and the baby are doing well. Reportedly after Jasleen's birth, her mother developed gestational diabetes.

heaviest baby Doctors standing around Jasleen

Jasleen isn't in Guinness Book of World Records

Despite Jasleen being the heaviest baby in Germany, she didn't make it to the Guinness Book of World Records.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the heaviest baby in the world was born to Anna Bates in Ohio, in 1897, and weighed 10.8 kilograms.

Unfortunately, the baby died two hours after birth. Following that, in 2009, a baby who weighed 8.7 kilograms was born via caesarian in North Sumatra, Indonesia.

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