A Florida mum stunned the maternity ward after delivering a record-breaking baby boy weighing twice the average newborn’s size.
Daniella Hines, 40, welcomed her son Annan on September 3 at St. Joseph’s Hospital-South in Riverview.
Nurses on the ward were left stunned after weighing him at a whopping 13 pounds, 15 ounces, which broke a hospital record.
‘He was the talk of the maternity ward,’ Hines told TODAY.
At just eight days old, Annan was already wearing clothes designed for a nine-month-old baby and had earned the nickname ‘Sumo’.
Annan is Hines and her husband Andre Sr.’s second child, with their first, Andre Jr., born weighing 12 pounds, 11 ounces.
But Hines was still shocked when her baby was handed to her, as she recalled how different the birth of her second felt.
‘I remember thinking, “What are they pulling out of me? What is going on here?” I felt so much pressure,’ she told the outlet.
Her confusion subsided when she saw Annan for the first time, and she added, ‘He was so big. I was like, “Whose baby is this? He came out of me?”
Hines stands at six feet, while her husband is six feet two inches tall. She believes their height played an enormous part in determining their children’s size.
Because hospital personnel thought Annan was the largest baby ever delivered to their ward, the not-so-little baby became the talk of the ward.
‘Everybody starts coming in because it’s not every day you see an almost 14-pound baby pop out,’ Hines continued. ‘He was like a little celebrity.’
St. Joseph’s Hospital-South called Annan a ‘big miracle.’
‘Annan is believed to be among the biggest babies, if not the biggest baby, ever born at St. Joseph’s Hospital-South,’ staff wrote on Facebook.
Hines responded on the post with great thanks for ‘such great hospitality,’ and added that Annan’s ‘weight came as a surprise to us as well.’
‘He is such a big, beautiful blessing,’ she wrote, adding with laughter to the comment section, ‘yes, I had a C-Section.’
Hines’ husband, Andre Sr., shared on social media that their baby boy had already donned the nickname ‘Sumo.’
On Monday, Hines wrote: ‘It’s been almost a week since our little, or should I say BIG bundle of joy made his debut into this world.’
‘Who knew he would be a baby celebrity,’ she continued.
Annan was doing ‘fine’ after his first week at home, and Hines was continuing her recovery from her second C-Section birth ‘due to high risk and weight’.
‘I’m still in awe, he was estimated to weigh around 11lbs (which is still big) and here we are,’ she wrote.
‘Now the focus is on making sure he stays healthy and taking back all these small clothes and size newborn/number 1 diapers that won’t fit.’
On Thursday, Hines shared more images of baby Annan, who was sleeping peacefully with a little smile on his face.
‘We are so in love with the newest addition to the family,’ she wrote.
‘Annan is eight days old and wearing 6-9 months in clothes and size 2 diapers! Look at those squishy cheeks and juicy rolls!’
Annan’s mother told TODAY that her newborn has been ‘really chill,’ except for when it’s time to eat.
‘We didn’t expect such a big blessing, but it’s just more to love!’ Hines said. ‘I can’t wait to show him when he gets older: “Look, you were in the news!”
In March, a mother in Alabama gave birth to a baby girl who was the size of a three-month-old, weighing 13 pounds, 4 ounces.
In 2019, a New York woman named Joy Buckley gave birth to a baby girl who weighed 15 pounds, 5 ounces.
‘I felt like I had been hit by two tractor-trailers simultaneously,’ she told the Washington Post the day after the birth.
A baby boy born in September 1955 in Aversa, Italy, now holds the Guinness World record for the heaviest baby born to a healthy mother.
The boy weighed in at a whopping 22 pounds, eight ounces.
It’s good to see some happiness in the world because this is a very positive story for once.
The parents are so happy, and the baby is doing well. This is what we need to see more of.
For whatever reason, some mums simply give birth to large infants, and this one is gorgeous.
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