"My little sumo wrestler." This is how her mother calls little Remi Frances, a baby who weighed almost six kilos at birth: exactly 5,880 kilos , when the average weight of a newborn baby is 3.3 kilos.
And that also was born with 38 weeks of gestation, which although it is a full-term baby, was two weeks ahead of the expected delivery date.
Remi was born by emergency cesarean section in Sydney , and is the third daughter of Emma and Daniel Millar, an Australian couple who have two other children who, although not to these extremes, were also born with an above-average weight. Two-year-old Willow weighed 5.5 kg at birth and four-year-old Ace weighed 3.8 kg at birth.
"At 35 weeks, an ultrasound revealed that he weighed about 4 kg, but we did not think that he would grow much more," said the mother. But it did. The girl continued to gain weight in the womb in recent weeks, precisely when more fat accumulates before birth.
The mother suffered from gestational diabetes during pregnancy, a condition that increases the chances of having a macrosomic baby. We speak of macrosomia when it is calculated that the weight of the baby at birth will be greater than the 90th percentile or greater than 4 kilos of weight .
Via | The Sidney Morning Herald
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