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Updated On: 26 September, 2009 07:54 AM IST | | Agencies
Indonesian gives birth to 8.7 kg boy who roars like a lion and eats like a pig
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Indonesian gives birth to 8.7 kg boy who roars like a lion and eats like a pig
He's a bouncing baby boy who could break a knee a mother in Jakarta, Indonesia, delivered a 19.2-lbs (8.7 kg), 2-foot-long child on Monday via Caesarean section.
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The as-yet-unnamed baby's arrival was marked by a cry that sounded more like a roar and an appetite of epic proportions.
In 1879...
The big baby, a weight record for a newborn in Indonesia, although a bit short of the world record of 23 lbs (10.4 kg) set in 1879, was likely caused by his mother having gestational diabetes.
And even though mother Ani was saved the gruelling task of pushing the child out herself, the surgery to bring him into the world was still touch and go.
He's a bouncing baby boy who could break a knee a mother in Jakarta, Indonesia, delivered a 19.2-lbs (8.7 kg), 2-foot-long child on Monday via Caesarean section.
u00a0
The as-yet-unnamed baby's arrival was marked by a cry that sounded more like a roar and an appetite of epic proportions.
In 1879...
The big baby, a weight record for a newborn in Indonesia, although a bit short of the world record of 23 lbs (10.4 kg) set in 1879, was likely caused by his mother having gestational diabetes.
And even though mother Ani was saved the gruelling task of pushing the child out herself, the surgery to bring him into the world was still touch and go.
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