A MUM has given birth to a baby boy weighing more than a STONE.
BIG BOY Mum gives birth to UK’s third-biggest baby weighing more than a STONE with tot so large it took 2 nurses to pull him out
Cherral Mitchell, 31, needed two midwives to haul out big Alpha as he weighed a whopping 14lb 15oz – believed to be the third biggest newborn ever in the UK.
He’s since been nicknamed ‘Baby Hippo’ and ‘Butter Bean’ due to his colossal size.
Alpha, who was born at 38 weeks on October 28, is believed to be the UK’s, third-biggest baby.
Alpha was born despite Cherral getting the contraceptive coil before he was conceived with electrical engineer husband Tyson, 35.
In second place is 15lb 7oz George King, who was born in Gloucester in 2013.
The average weight of a baby born in the UK is 7lb 8oz for boys and 7lb 4oz for girls.
Doctors have put Alpha’s proportions down to a sweet tooth as they believe he was snacking on Cherral’s sugary fluids while in the womb.
‘BABY HIPPO’
Alpha was estimated to be 11lb 1oz in a scan at 37 weeks but he ballooned by three pounds before he was born a week later through a C-section at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
Cherral already has a son – Lyon, three – and daughters Rogue-Angel, four, and Twyla Bay, 10 months – but said that Alpha is the biggest by a long shot.
Alpha is currently in NICU where he’s being monitored by neonatal nurses but is “on the mend”.
Source:
