Undertoad Thursday Sep 27 07:08 PMSeptember 27, 2007: Woman [caesarian-] births a 17 pound baby
Booyah! We had a 16-pounder as IotD in February, so news of this 17-pounder had to make the site as well. The Mail via Neatorama has the details on this lass, Nadia, born by c-section in Siberia.
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joining eight sisters and three brothers
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I guess the first eleven make womb room? Anyway, this is not a record, but still notable. Especially for the look on the kid next door, who must feel inadequate.
HungLikeJesus Thursday Sep 27 07:18 PMThat looks like a really loud baby.
P.S. I thought it was a girl.
TheMercenary Thursday Sep 27 07:21 PMNot uncommon in twin and multipul births for one fetus to steal blood supply from the others. Pretty common.
freshnesschronic Thursday Sep 27 07:51 PMThe other's baby's eyes are open (rare!) cause he's like "dayum, what they feedin' you in there, Life cereal??"
TheMercenary Thursday Sep 27 08:00 PM
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The other's baby's eyes are open (rare!)
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No, many open their eyes right away if you cover their heads from the bright light. They cannot focus immediately. In a week or so they can focus about to the lenght of their arms.
freshnesschronic Thursday Sep 27 08:14 PMOh yeah, I forgot what it was like to be 3 minutes old, thanks Merc
Undertoad Thursday Sep 27 08:18 PM
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P.S. I thought it was a girl.
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You're right. corrected
TheMercenary Thursday Sep 27 08:22 PMIt really is funny looking at that little baby looking at the big baby...
"Somebody tell that baby to quit acting like a crybaby and give it a big bottle of shutthefuckup!"
monster Thursday Sep 27 08:27 PM
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Not uncommon in twin and multipul births for one fetus to steal blood supply from the others. Pretty common.
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She wasn't a twin, though, was she? the other baby is just an innocent bystander wheeled in for size comparison, methinks.
And no, it isn't rare for babies to have their eyes open when they're awake. And who could sleep through that racket?
rkzenrage Thursday Sep 27 08:32 PMThe day my wife was born there was a lady that had a 16lb baby naturally.
At least her mom told me naturally... I still try not to imagine it.
xoxoxoBruce Thursday Sep 27 09:09 PMSo, she's a Siberian... husky?
monster Thursday Sep 27 09:54 PMI'm waiting for the IOTD entitled "Man births 17lb baby".... now that would be something to gawp at.
orthodoc Thursday Sep 27 10:15 PMThat's gotta be a diabetic mom ... with twelve kids. (Gestational diabetes produces biiigg babies.)
Hope the older kids do housework. I once took care of a postpartum mother of twelve who was working on a beautiful piece of handwork when I made rounds in the evening. The nurse came in and asked how she managed the time to do such beautiful work with twelve children ... the mom looked at her and said, 'My dear, with twelve children, I don't DO housework!'.
Sheldonrs Thursday Sep 27 11:01 PM
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I'm waiting for the IOTD entitled "Man births 17lb baby".... now that would be something to gawp at.
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Well if he goes for natural child birth, I don't want to see it!!!
Like passing a watermelon through a straw!
Gravdigr Friday Sep 28 12:25 AMWhat do you get when a pregnant woman has a colostomy operation? A womb with a view!!
Sheldonrs Friday Sep 28 01:37 AM
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No shit?
justush Friday Sep 28 01:52 AM
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How come there are no GIRL-focused IotD stuff like shoes or diamond rings or self-tanning products on the Cellar? Ever ask yourself that, UT?
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If this is not girl-focused iotd then i dont know what is...
morie Friday Sep 28 04:56 AMhey, looks like she can provide enough lunch for 5 people. and i've heard they taste just like chicken too.
spudcon Friday Sep 28 08:24 AM
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hey, looks like she can provide enough lunch for 5 people. and i've heard they taste just like chicken too.
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It's about time someone chimed in with the food jokes. Thanks Marie.
dar512 Friday Sep 28 09:59 AM
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So, she's a Siberian... husky?
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BigV Friday Sep 28 10:55 AMOne of those rare IotDs that turn the tables on who eats whom.
bigbaby/fatbastard voice: "Get that tit in MAH BELLY!"
Saphyre Friday Sep 28 11:44 AMDang - someone beat me to the girl-focused iotd comment - thanks, tush!!
As for me... ouch, just ouch. C-section or not.
smurfalicious Friday Sep 28 01:10 PM
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joining eight sisters and three brothers
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Remember folks... it's a vagina, not a clown car.
Sheldonrs Friday Sep 28 03:37 PMAnd now for something easier to handle:
The world's tiniest baby - meet the 10oz bundle of defiance
Last updated at 23:35pm on 27th September 2007
When she was born, 15 weeks premature and weighing ten and a half ounces, her father's confidence was about the only thing on Kimberly Mueller's side.
In the few snatched moments he was allowed before his daughter was whisked away by doctors, Andreas Mueller spoke from his heart.
"I whispered to her: 'Kimberly, you'll make it,'" he recalled.
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The size of a mobile phone: Kimberley Mueller weighed just over 10 ounces when she was born in Hanover, Germany - making her the world's smallest surviving baby
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Russian woman gives birth to 17lb child
With a survival chance of less than 1,000 to one, every day she has got through since then is a triumph.
Six months later, Kimberly has finally been allowed to go home to her parents in Hanover.
"Babies as small as this usually have no chance," said Dr Oliver Moeller, a heart specialist who treated her.
"We are incredibly lucky that she lived. Such a case I have never experienced. We had a lot of luck ... a lot."
Kimberly is the smallest baby ever born in Germany and the youngest to survive.
She was just 10.2 inches long and weighed little more than a packet of butter when she arrived in the 25th week of her mother's pregnancy.
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Now six months, Kimberley has been allowed home for the first time (Above with mother Petra and father Andreas)
Petra Mueller, 38, who remained at her daughter's bedside in intensive care at the University Clinic in Goettingen, was allowed only to stroke her with her finger.
"It was the nicest thing when she would grip my finger in her tiny hands," she recalled.
"She was like a little bear gripping a tree trunk, just hanging on for life as if she was saying 'Don't leave me, mummy'."
Kimberly was placed in an incubator for warmth, given a respirator to help her breathe and fed through a drip. She was also given a cocktail of drugs to boost an immune system that was barely formed.
At three months, she faced a major setback, when doctors feared she could be blind. But laser treatment corrected the problem.
Kimberley's chances of living were rated at worse than 1,000-1 when she was born 15 weeks prematurely
Kimberly's progress was underlined when she arrived home this week weighing five and a half pounds and measuring 17 inches.
During the coming weeks she will continue to be fed artificially and will need to have oxygen as her lungs keep developing.
The world's smallest known surviving baby was Rumaisa Rahman who weighed just 8.6 ounces when she was born in Chicago in 2004.
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What wonderful miracles the medical world can do, a lovely story.
- Trish, Ex Hampshire Uk South Oz., Renmark,,South Australia.
I know a little one who is now two years of age...she arrived ay 22weeks she is so amazing now.
- Carol, Swansea Wales
My grandson was born 13 weeks early in April, weighing just over 2lbs. He had a few problems but finally went home in July. He is now 5 months old and doing well. God bless the medical staff at Wigan hospital, they did a fantastic job.
- Sue, Darlington, England
HungLikeJesus Friday Sep 28 03:43 PMThe thing I don't understand about premature babies is this - why don't they just put them back in until they're finished? Not quite ready, back you go.
lookout123 Friday Sep 28 07:44 PM
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Remember folks... it's a vagina, not a clown car.
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Awesome!
xoxoxoBruce Saturday Sep 29 12:57 AM.
TheMercenary Sunday Sep 30 08:42 PMWe don't need to be saving fetus'.
smurfalicious Monday Oct 1 10:54 AM
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fabulous! and thanks bunches... i totally thieved it from you.
Cicero Monday Oct 1 11:54 AMNot a clown car? Seems like every ass clown I know wants to jump in...all at the same time if need be.....
Keep telling yourselves that if it makes you feel better!
Where is Shawnee? I just can't seem to do this justice!!
manephelien Monday Oct 1 01:36 PM
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The thing I don't understand about premature babies is this - why don't they just put them back in until they're finished? Not quite ready, back you go.
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Often they do try, some women spend nearly half their pregnancy on their backs in a hospital bed. They often can't get up even to go to the bathroom. Once the amniotic sac is broken, germs may get in from the outside.
Amazing, the difference between the largest and smallest baby, 17 lbs vs 10 oz.
TheMercenary Wednesday Oct 3 06:43 AM
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Not a clown car? Seems like every ass clown I know wants to jump in...all at the same time if need be.....
Keep telling yourselves that if it makes you feel better!
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Everybody should ride one at least once.
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