20 January 2023 , 20:41
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A woman in Brazil has given birth to a giant baby measuring two feet and weighing a whopping 16 pounds.
Angerson Santos was welcomed into the world via C-section at Hospital Padre Colombo in Parintins, Amazonas State, on Wednesday, January 18.
Medics believe that the supersize baby is the biggest to have ever been born in the state, beating the previous record of 13lb and 1.8ft.
His mum — 27-year-old Cleidiane Santos dos Santos — had visited the hospital for a routine obstetric consultation.
But doctors quickly realised that the unborn baby would be too big for her to carry to full term so kept her in for a C-section.
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Angerson is in an incubator (Facebook)Surgeons carried out the C-section the next day and Angerson was born weighing 7.328 kilogrammes and measuring 59 centimetres.
The not-so-little baby is in an incubator but is in stable condition and has no abnormalities, according to medics at the hospital.
Angerson is so big that all the baby clothes his parents had bought for him don't fit so the hospital has launched a fundraiser to help the family out.
Medics knew Angerson would be too big to carry to full term (Facebook)The facility is taking donations of extra-large nappies and clothes for babies aged between nine months and a year.
Angerson smashes the previous Amazonas state record set by Pedro Aluizio, who was born in Parintins in 2014 weighing 6.74 kilogrammes (14lb 8oz) and measuring 57 centimetres.
Hospital Padre Colombo (Hospital Padre Colombo/Facebook)Before that, the record was held by a baby born in the municipality in 2011 weighing 6.12 (13lb) kilogrammes and measuring 56 centimetres (1.8ft).
But according to the Guinness World Records, the heaviest baby ever was a boy born to Sig. Carmelina Fedele, weighing 10.2 kilogrammes (22lb 8oz) in Aversa, Italy, in September 1955.