So the other day I was in my car, driving to school, listening to the radio on a morning talk-show or whatever it'd be called, and I heard the following: 19.2 pound newborn baby!!! What the heck is that? It's like a monster baby, if you ask me. This baby was born in Indonesia and was delivered by Caeserean section, and considering what the mother would've had to go through to push that baby out, I'm glad for her. The mother named her big baby boy Muhammad Akbar Risuddin, "Akbar" being the Indonesian word for "big". Big as this baby might be, he sure isn't the biggest newborn in history. According to the Guiness Book of World Records, a baby born in Canada in 1879 weighed 23.12 pounds, but died 11 hours after birth. The biggest newborn to live longer was born in Italy in 1955 and weighed 22 pounds and 8 ounces. Wow. I have no idea how those ladies carried those monster babies in their bellies for so long. Nonetheless, the lady in Indonesia has a newborn baby who is now in the Guiness Book of World Records for being the biggest known newborn in Indonesia. How neat is that?
