GYNAECOLOGISTS HAD expected that a woman (mother to be) would give birth to a triplet or twin at a Mizoram hospital. 29-year-old Laltlanfeli, after giving birth, surprised many doctors in the hospital, as it was not a triplet or a twin but a baby weighing massive 6.1 kg, which must have been one of the heaviest babies born in Mizoram in recent months, reported PTI. It may be termed a case of macrosomia, meaning a new-born with an excessive birth weight.

Though, if we look at the story published by Times of India on February 2011, it said that a 30-year-old woman in Noida gave birth to a boy weighing 5.6kg, and it said that it missed the Indian record for the heaviest baby at birth by just 100 grams during the time. If this is the case, then the baby born at Mizoram should surpass this record. But, nothing has been said about the record officially.

Normally, when such kinds of babies are born, there are chances that the mother and the baby might become weak, but here both looked fine. Hence, it was good news for the mother along with the child, who was born on January 28 in a civil hospital in Aizwal, capital of Mizoram.

One look around the world may show that there are number of new-born babies, who weigh more than normal. Some of them even die even before surviving for a day. One such instance was when a boy weighing 10.8 kg survived only for 11 hours post his birth. It still holds a place in the Guinness book of world records, as the heaviest baby at birth, as per, unbred.com. Anna Haining Bates was the mother who had given birth to the child on 1879.

Apart from such cases, there are babies, who are born very light too, as the lightest baby, Aaliyah Hart was born in England weighing around 340grams. The average weight of a new born baby is said to be around 3. 4 kg.