New parents were yesterday recovering from the big surprise that left hospital staff lost for words.
Their daughter Carisa was born by caesarean-section weighing 14 pounds, 5oz - around twice the size of an average baby or, the size of a six month old baby, doctors said.
Caroline and Bryan Ruscak from Massachusetts in the US, said they had expected a big baby, but maybe not one quite so large!
The couple’s first daughter, Claudia, was born at 10.5 pounds.
“I heard the weight and I was like, ‘Oh, my God,’” Caroline. “It validated me because I was in a lot of pain when I was pregnant, so to hear the size, it made sense.”
“Everyone in the operating room was like, 'Oh my God, look at the size of this baby! Let’s get her on the scale. What does she weigh?' Nobody could believe it,” Caroline added.
Carisa’s size brought gasps from the staff in the operating room of Massachusetts General Hospital, who say she is the biggest baby to be born at the hospital in more than a decade.
“When she came out at 14 and a half pounds, I couldn’t believe it,” dad Bryyn said. “I took a picture of the scale just to document it because I couldn’t believe how big she was. And long, too: 22 inches is long. That’s what we like, long and big. That’s what I am.”
“I’ll be in trouble in a few years, but that’s OK,” Bryan Rusack joked. “I feel very lucky.”
