A 19-year-old woman in Hassan, Karnataka has given birth to a baby girl weighing 6.8 kg, possibly the ‘heaviest baby at birth’ in India.
The mother Nandini, who goes only by her initial name and her husband Arun, welcomed their first child by caesarean section on Monday evening at a government-run hospital.
The baby is being kept at the neonatal intensive care unit and doctors are monitoring her development before they discharge her in few days.
The record so far for the heaviest Indian baby is held by a boy, born to Firdaus Khatun of Uttar Pradesh in November 2015. The baby boy weighed 6.7 kg.
The world record for the heaviest baby was for a boy born to Carmelina Fedele in Aversa, Italy, in September 1955. The boy weighed 10.2 kg.
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