An Indiana woman knew she was going to give birth to a large baby. But even she was stunned when she delivered a 16-pound boy last month.
"We ended up weighing him three times because no one could believe he actually weighed 16 pounds," Edmond Hallett told Us Weekly. "At first I thought maybe the scale was broken."
Whitney Hallett of Seymour, Indiana, gave birth to Waylon Cole Hallett on May 1. He is roughly the size of a 6-month-old child and measured 24 inches at birth, doctors said. The infant spent seven weeks in intensive care due to breathing and feeding issues, Us Weekly reported. According to the American Pregnancy Association, the average newborn weights 7.5 pounds at birth.
Waylon Hallett told Us Weekly that after his son was born, he went to the store and bought clothes that would fit a child weighing 6 to 9 pounds.
“There was no way he was fitting into a newborn outfit,” he said.
The baby now weighs 17 pounds, 7 ounces and is now home with his parents and two sisters, Us Weekly reported.
Edmond Hallett said his 28-year-old wife was diagnosed with gestational diabetes, a condition that can cause a newborn to grow large before birth. Us Weekly reported that Whitney Hallett’s other three children weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounces; 11 pounds, 1 ounce; and 9 pounds, 14 ounces.
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