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Baby girl is "heaviest born in UK" at 12lb 12oz
A baby girl who tipped the scales at 12lbs 12oz is thought to be the heaviest girl ever born in the UK.
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Suzie Gzowski was born with two teeth and is already wearing clothes for babies aged six months, despite being just three weeks old.
Her mother Gemma Tevendale, 26, gave birth naturally in just 44 minutes and did not need stitches.
She told The Sun that she thought eating a lot of fish during pregnancy might have plumped up her newborn.
"I do like my fish four times a week," she said. "I hadn't gone overboard with it, although I probably had more than I should — usually tuna and smoked salmon.
"They'd said she was going to be big, between 10 to 11 pounds. But when they saw she was 12lbs 12oz they thought the scales had broken."
Suzie was almost double the weight of the average newborn. Although breast fed, she also has bottles because she is so hungry.
Miss Tevendale. from Swindon, Wilts, said both of her older children had been unusually heavy at birth, with son Vincent, now six, weighing in a 10lb 10oz and daughter Violet four, at 11lb 2oz.
But she disclosed that both she and Suzie's father, James Gzowski, 25, were average size at birth.
The heaviest baby girl born in the UK before Suzie was 12lbs 9oz and was delivered by C-section last September.
The heaviest newborn boy was Guy Warwick Carr, delivered in Cumbria in 1992 and weighing in at 15lbs 8oz.
The heaviest baby ever born to a healthy mother is said to be a boy weighing 22lbs 8oz, in Aversa, Italy in September, 1955.
Article from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/9088030/Baby-girl-is-heaviest-born-in-UK-at-12lb-12oz.html
A baby girl who tipped the scales at 12lbs 12oz is thought to be the heaviest girl ever born in the UK.
Photo: Getty Images
Suzie Gzowski was born with two teeth and is already wearing clothes for babies aged six months, despite being just three weeks old.
Her mother Gemma Tevendale, 26, gave birth naturally in just 44 minutes and did not need stitches.
She told The Sun that she thought eating a lot of fish during pregnancy might have plumped up her newborn.
"I do like my fish four times a week," she said. "I hadn't gone overboard with it, although I probably had more than I should — usually tuna and smoked salmon.
"They'd said she was going to be big, between 10 to 11 pounds. But when they saw she was 12lbs 12oz they thought the scales had broken."
Suzie was almost double the weight of the average newborn. Although breast fed, she also has bottles because she is so hungry.
Miss Tevendale. from Swindon, Wilts, said both of her older children had been unusually heavy at birth, with son Vincent, now six, weighing in a 10lb 10oz and daughter Violet four, at 11lb 2oz.
But she disclosed that both she and Suzie's father, James Gzowski, 25, were average size at birth.
The heaviest baby girl born in the UK before Suzie was 12lbs 9oz and was delivered by C-section last September.
The heaviest newborn boy was Guy Warwick Carr, delivered in Cumbria in 1992 and weighing in at 15lbs 8oz.
The heaviest baby ever born to a healthy mother is said to be a boy weighing 22lbs 8oz, in Aversa, Italy in September, 1955.
Article from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/9088030/Baby-girl-is-heaviest-born-in-UK-at-12lb-12oz.html
