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Iowa Mom Gives Birth to 14-Pound Baby Boy [VIDEO]
In news that will likely make mothers everywhere wince in sympathetic pain, a 14-pound baby boy has been born in Des Moines, Iowa.
Kendall Stewardson gave birth to the enormous bundle of joy, whom she named Asher, on January 27th — and what’s more, she did it naturally and without an epidural. Doctors were worried a C-section or epidural could be harmful to either her or little (big?) Asher.
It’s not Stewardson’s first king-sized infant — just over a year ago, her son Judah was born weighing 12 pounds. Still, both the new mom and the staff at Iowa’s Mercy Medical Center were taken aback by Asher’s heft.
When he came out we all thought he was smaller [than Judah] and then we put him on the scale, we were very surprised,” Kendall said.
If you’re currently pregnant and this story has scared the daylights out of you, rest easy. According to the National Council of Health Statistics, only one in 1,000 babies weighs more than 11 pounds at birth.
[via ABC News]
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