Oh, baby!
An Alabama mother was left in disbelief Tuesday when she gave birth to a baby girl twice the size of a newborn.
Pamela Mann, a delivery driver living in a small town southeast of Birmingham, welcomed her daughter, Paris Halo, to the world during a scheduled C-section at the Alabama Grand View Medical Center.
But she had a brief scare in the delivery room.
“The doctor pulls her out of me and all the nurses are like “Oh God!” Pamela Mann shared with TODAY. “I started freaking out because I had no idea what was happening.”
The medical team’s enthusiastic reaction was in response to her baby’s unusual size.
Mann’s newborn, Paris Halo, weighed a whopping 13 pounds and four ounces when she was born at the Alabama Grand View Medical Center.
The news stunned the 31-year-old, who believed Paris had weighed the standard size for a newborn.
According to data from Stanford Children’s Health, the average birth weight for a full-term baby is 7 pounds.
Four weeks before the baby girl was born, Mann’s doctor measured Paris at eight pounds but a technician said she weighed 10 pounds, WVTM13 reported.
“Come to find out she was way over what both were saying,” Mann told the outlet.
Nurses are even making “special trips” to see Mann’s daughter with their own eyes.
“She’s only three days old and she’s already very well-known,” Mann told Today.
The baby arrived 16 days before her scheduled due date. She skipped many clothing sizes and is wearing clothing made for a 6-month-old baby.
One of the first images of the baby girl shows her in a pink onesie with a bib that reads “Welcome to the world” and a pink bow on her head.
Mann’s family has already jumped on giving the girl nicknames like Pork Chop, Big Mama, and Star.
Paris Halo will stay in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit for some “extra love and care” for a few days before going home.
Mann has been in great spirits, and she added that even though her daughter is in the NICU, “she’s doing great.”
According to Guinness World Records, the heaviest baby on record, weighing 22 pounds, was born in Italy back in 1955.
In 2019, a New York mom gave birth to a 15-pound-5-ounce bundle of joy.
Joy Buckley of Corning revealed it took three doctors, a medical “vacuum” and a C-section to deliver child Harper Buckley at Arnot Odgen Medical Center. She gave birth to an 11-pound boy two years prior.
