A mother from Upstate New York was recently left stunned after giving birth to an extraordinarily large baby at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca.
The newborn child was named Shawn Jr, who came in weighing a striking 13 pounds, far above the typical weight that you'd find for a newborn its age. This gave rise to a new record of being the largest baby ever born at this hospital.
The news took a lot of people by surprise, including the parents, who mentioned more about how they had expected a bigger-than-average child but were still shocked at just how big he was. Medical staff shared more about how the delivery went well, and everyone involved in it was healthy, though the size of the child drew mega surprise and attention from both the family and hospital employees.
Furthermore, on the same day, the hospital shared more about how they welcomed another baby girl named Margot, who weighed in at about 4 pounds.
This underscored the dramatic difference in weight between the two newborn children born just a few hours apart from one another.