Woman Gives Birth to 16-Pound Baby

This could not have been easy: On Sunday, a Texas woman gave birth to a two-foot-long, 16-pound boy, which is more than double the average size of a newborn. Janet Johnson’s doctors had warned her toward the end of her pregnancy that her son would be big, perhaps due to the fact that she was diagnosed with gestational diabetes when she was pregnant. “It’s a beautiful baby, but for health reasons we’d rather not see a baby this large,” said a nurse who helped deliver JaMichael Brown, Johnson’s fourth child. Doctors say JaMichael is doing OK so far in an intensive-care unit, where they are helping him breathe and eat. The Guinness Book of World Records says the biggest ever born weighed in at 23 pounds and 12 ounces, back in 1879. Sadly, that baby died 11 hours later.