16-pound Baby born in Texas

A woman gave birth to a 16-pound, 1 ounce baby boy on 8th July in Longview, Texas. Baby JaMichael Brown is 2 feet long and has 17-inch chest and 15" head which is full of hair. The weight of the baby is more than 2 times the weight of an average healthy newborn. He is the biggest baby ever born at Good Shepherd Medical Center. He is kept in the hospitals’ ICU (Intensive Care Unit) to observe his blood sugar where he was getting fed with the help of a feeding tube. JaMichael Brown already got the pet name "The Moose."

As per doctors, Janet Johnson was diagnosed with gestational diabetes which may have contributed the size of JaMichael. JaMichael is the 1st child of the couple (Janet Johnson and Michael Brown). Doctors had already warned Janet Johnson that her baby may be large as she had gestational diabetes during her pregnancy. The baby was expected to weight 12 or 13 pounds but nobody had imagined he will weight 4 pounds more.

They have to return all the things such as clothing, diapers and other things which they had bought for him, as per his parents. The diapers of hospital were also too small for the baby. According to Mr Brown, his baby will become a footballer. Janet Johnson delivered the baby through Caesarean in her 39th week of pregnancy. Within the next few days the baby will be home.

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