[...] A woman in California just broke a state record by giving birth to a 14-pound baby. [...]

I hope she did have prenatal care. Lack of prenatal care usually ends up in a baby being LESS than the average weight of an 8 pound newborn. My 2nd child was over 10 pounds and I had excelent prenatal care and a 2 1/2 hour natural vaginal birth. The bigger the baby usually means shes actually had prenatal care…. unless she was only eating fast food for the past 9 months.

I think she had prenatal care. I suspect maybe she’s diabetic and diabetic Mom have big babies. My sister’s mother-in-law was not diabetic, was indeed very healthy and had good prenatal care and gave birth over 60 years ago to three sons. In order of birth they were 8lb 7oz, 10lb 13oz and 12lb even. All were healthy and are still alive today. They don’t say how long the baby is. The three boys were 22-23 inches.

A bigger baby could also mean that the mom suffered from undiagnosed or untreated gestational diabetes, which can result in very large babies. Hopefully it’s not that, because untreated gestational diabetes is harmful both for the mother AND for the baby.

Hi and Congrats, But this is not the largest baby born in CA. My youngest sister born in 1973 made The Jet Magazine and The Los Angeles Times. She tipped the scales at 14.5 1/2 oz. My mother had gestational Diabetes and was hospitalized the last 4 months of the pregnancy. She was born the end of July. In the papers August 2nd I believe. Kaiser In Hollywood holds these records. She delivered Natural cause they had no Idea of what to expect back then. My mom was a 5’4 medium framed woman. By the grace of God all went just about well.

Wow! Way to go to this mom! And just read previous comments… I am a smaller built woman and so are the rest of my family. It’s just in our genes to be small people. I ate well, I exercised carefully, and I had excellent prenatal care throughout my pregnancy with my children. They were both born full-term and they were also both around 5-6 pounds, happy and healthy.. Smaller babies do not necessarily mean mothers lacked marvelous prenatal care. Sure it helps a lot, but it’s not the only reason that determines the size of babies.

Just because a Mother doesn’t have a huge baby, doesn’t mean she didn’t have prenatal care. On the average most babies are 6.5 to 8.5 pounds, Sorry, just dislike tremendously the little comments about if you don’t have a huge baby you weren’t doing something right or you didn’t have proper prenatal care. There are many factors, that go with this, size of the Mother, and if she ate healthy or fattening etc etc… Sorry but having a exceptionally big baby cannot be healthy for the Mother nor the baby!!!!!