Baby Theo tips the scales at 11lb 6oz

When Joleen Adamson went into hospital to deliver her baby, she never expected that 36 hours later she would be the proud – and exhausted – mum of the largest baby the hospital staff had ever seen.

Joleen, 29, from Chirk, went into Wrexham Maelor Hospital expecting a straightforward natural birth, having been told that everything was normal during her prenatal scans.

Baby Theo finally made his big entrance, astonishing hospital staff with his size.

And newborn-sized clothes that Joleen and her husband Lee, 42, had bought ready for the birth proved too small for Theo, who is already growing out of clothes made for babies aged three to six months.

She said: "They measured him at the hospital and he was 60cm long. When I tell people how much he weighed I think they assume he's fat, but he's just big. He's got big hands and big feet, and the clothes he's wearing are coming up his legs. He seems to be growing by the day.

"I was 8lb 10oz, so I was big but not excessively big, and Lee was about the same, so it was a real surprise."

Joleen said just a year ago the couple were facing the possibility of not being able to conceive naturally.

"For about 10 years Lee had a vasectomy," she said. "He had it reversed last year so that we could try for a baby but the surgeon wasn't very hopeful after we'd gone back and Lee had all the tests done.

"He said to give it 12 months and then maybe we could look at other options.

"We didn't really think that we'd have a baby."

Now back home with Theo, Joleen said the experience of giving birth had been difficult.

"Just after Theo was born I went downhill quite quickly because I was losing blood," she said.

"It was about two hours later when I'd kind of come round a bit.

"After such long labour it has put me off a little bit, but it's a pain that you quickly forget. You look at him and you forget the pain."