Global warming!'Super Tonio' lies behind another newborn in Jesus Kumate Rodriguez hospital.
As the picture clearly shows, Antonio Vasconcelos - he's the one at the back - is no ordinary new-born baby. Dubbed "Super Tonio", he startled staff at the Jesus Kumate Rodriguez hospital in Cancun, Mexico, not to mention his mother, by arriving via caesarean section on Monday weighing a whopping 6.6kg (14lb 8oz), roughly twice the average weight for a newborn baby.
| Thank goodness it was a C-section, otherwise it would be like pushing out a gigantic watermelon. |
Antonio's parents, 23-year-old Teresa Alejandra Cruz and Luis Vasconcelos, 38, are remarkably unfazed, noting that their daughter had weighed a not-insignificant 5.2kg at birth. "It's good, because now with this one, we'll have a pair [of big babies]," Mr Vasconcelos said.
Despite Antonio's size, he is not the biggest baby born in recent years. In January 2005, a Brazilian baby arrived weighing 7.6kg. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the heaviest baby was a boy born to a healthy mother in Italy in September 1955 weighing 10.2kg.
Said baby, Michaelo, moved to the USA as a teen along with his family, the Moorio, who then americanized their name... and the rest is History.