A Russian woman has given birth to a baby girl weighing 17.5 pounds, more than twice the average newborn weight.
“We were all simply in shock,” reported the baby’s mother, Tatyana Barabanova. “My husband couldn’t say a thing – he just stood there blinking.”
The baby girl, Nadia, was by delivered by Caesarean section at a hospital in the Altai region of Siberia, and will be joining her eight sisters and three brothers.
All of Tatyana’s previous babies weighed more than 11 pounds.
“We don’t have the money for special foods so I just ate potatoes, noodles and tomatoes,” added Tatyana.