Mum surprised after giving birth to 'biggest baby' hospital has seen in 13 years

02 November 2023 , 14:09

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Bumper baby Sonny's weight came as a surprise to his parents (Image: Ayres family)

A pair of overjoyed parents got a shock when they found out that their latest bundle of joy had tipped the scales at a whopping 14 pounds-plus. The couple, from Cambridge, Ontario, have four other children, all of whom were also big babies – but new son Sonny has beaten them all. He weighed in at 14lbs 8oz and was 55 centimetres long.

Mum Britteney Ayres and dad Chance said their youngest child's large size was "absolutely" a surprise to them after Britteney gave birth via cesarean section at Cambridge Memorial Hospital, last month. Chance told Good Morning America: "Never in our wildest dreams did we think he'd be that big."

Sonny is now back home with his parents and family in Cambridge and his four older siblings – Chance, six, Everett, five, Lucky, three, and Marigold, one and like his siblings, Sonny was larger than the size of an average baby boy at birth, which tends to be around 9lbs, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Proud parents Britteney and Chance with little (big) Sonny (Ayres family)

And according to his proud mum, two of his older siblings were also born via C-section and both weighed more than 13lbs. She said: "Marigold was born 13lbs, 14oz. And Lucky, he was born 13lbs, 11oz."

Britteney said her pregnancy was free of any complications and that Sonny arrived a week earlier than expected. She said the experience had been a "blessing". She said: "I'm taking it day by day but I'm just really happy to be home and have a good support system. Nana and Papa are here helping out with the other littles and we're just really excited to be home. It's a blessing."

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She added that the doctors were also amazed at the size of Sonny and Britteney replied: "Well, we just make big babies. Chance is very tall. He's 6ft 2in. My dad's tall so it runs in the family." Dr. Asa Ahimbisibwe, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Cambridge Memorial Hospital, said that Sonny was the biggest baby he has delivered so far in his career and the biggest baby born at the hospital since 2010.

The couple have decided that Sonny will be their last child and he has already been lighting up their lives. "He's our last one... a ray of sunshine. He's beautiful," Chance said. "Anyone that sees them has an enormous smile, even if they don't recognise him from the news. They still see him and say, 'Wow, what a baby that is'."

Paul Donald