Kayleigh Parsons and daughter Jamie-Leigh, who was born weighing 12lbs 1oz
Is this Shropshire’s heaviest newborn baby? Weighing 12lbs 1oz Jamie-Leigh Parsons is already wearing clothes made for six-month-olds and is more than 2ft long.
Jamie-Leigh, of Doddington, Hollinswood, Telford, is so large she only just fitted into the incubator at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, where she was born on Thursday.
Hospital staff in awe of the baby, who is pounds heavier than the average newborn at about 7lbs 5oz, told mother Kay-Leigh Parsons, 21, her daughter could be the heaviest ever recorded in the county.
“She was a big surprise,” said Mrs Parsons, who also has 18-month-old twins and a four-year-old son.
“When they weighed her the doctors and midwives said they thought she could be the biggest baby born in Shropshire.
“We found out about eight months in that she was going to be big. They thought she would be about 9lbs. We didn’t expect her to be 12lbs. We had to take all her baby clothes back to Asda to swap them. She doesn’t fit into any of the newborn nappies we bought either.”
Mrs Parsons says neither her or her husband, Mark, have any family history of large babies.
“This pregnancy was a bit more complicated because I was induced but it was actually quite quick,” she added.
“She lost a little bit of weight afterwards but she’s put it back on rapidly. I don’t know if she’ll always be big, we’ll have to wait and see.”
Andy Rogers, of The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, said: “We wish the family well.”
Britain’s heaviest newborn was Guy Warwick Carr, delivered in Cumbria in 1992 weighing 15lb 8oz.
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All things are relative – I gave birth to a 11lb 7oz baby in the 1970′s naturally (ie no intervention drugs, induced etc.)and a first born – no need for an incubator and weighed 9stone 4oz myself before pregnancy – so it is an injustice to judge on weight of the baby only – many of us give birth to babies larger than expected per our build so do not make this a competition for the largest baby surely health of the baby and mother is the main criteria.
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