2006-09-20 08:15:14 · 11 answers · asked by steph v 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
Heaviest Birth
Anna Bates (née Swan) (Canada) (1846–88), who measured 2.27 m (7 ft 5.5 in) tall, gave birth to a boy weighing 10.8 kg (23 lb 12 oz) and measuring 76 cm (30 in) long, at her home in Seville, Ohio, USA, on January 19, 1879, but the baby died 11 hours later.
The heaviest baby born to a healthy mother was a boy weighing 10.2 kg (22 lb 8 oz) who was born to Sig. Carmelina Fedele (Italy) at Aversa, Italy in September 1955.
It was reported in a letter to the British Medical Journal (1 February 1879) from a doctor in Torpoint, Cornwall, UK, that a child born on Christmas Day 1852 weighed 9.5 kg (21 lb).
The only other reported birthweight in excess of 9 kg (2O lb) is 9.13 kg (20 lb 2 oz) for a boy born to a 33-year-old schoolmistress in Crewe, Cheshire, UK on November 12, 1884.
Guy Warwick Carr was born on March 9, 1992, the eighth child of Andrew and Nicola Carr (who measured 1.57 m (5ft 2in) tall) of Kirkby-in-Furness, Cumbria, UK, weighing 7 kg (15 lb 8 oz). He was 63 cm (25 in) in length and midwives at the Maternity Unit had to raid the Childrens Ward for nappies and clothes large enough to fit him.
The UK's lightest baby, Aaliyah Hart, born in Birmingham in May, weighed just 12oz (about 340g).
Alex Franks, born in 1999 at 22 weeks, and weighing just 1lb 1oz (about 420g), is thought to be the most premature baby to survive in the UK.
2006-09-20 08:26:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The lowest birth rate according to the Guinness book of records was an American: Rumaisa Rahman on the 19 September 2004, in Maywood, Illinois, USA, 260 g (9.17 oz).
Heaviest Birth
Anna Bates (1846–88), gave birth to a boy weighing 10.8 kg (23 lb 12 oz) and measuring 76 cm (30 in) long, at her home in Seville, Ohio, USA, on January 19, 1879, but the baby died 11 hours later.
You should have a look on the website it's fab:
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com
2006-09-21 00:43:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the lowest birth weight recorded at th moment is 12 ounces born last year the heaviest is 13 10 recorded in july this year
2006-09-20 08:19:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the heaviest weight ever known was Ademilton dos Santos who was born in brazil and survived weighed 17lb other than that the heaviest baby ever was anna bates in 1879 who weighed 23lb12oz but died 11 hours after birth and the lightest to of still survived was Lucia Xarate who weighed 2lb8oz
2006-09-21 14:12:06 · answer #4 · answered by puddle2k6 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the lowest weight known is a single atom of hydrogen - 1 on the elemental chart/scale. I'm probably wrong as atoms have their own parts too and yes I know you are *probably* talking about human babies, but then why didn't you SAY so? :)
2006-09-20 08:22:40 · answer #5 · answered by mancunian_nick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heaviest is 14 lbs 13 oz... just a few weeks ago in Connecticut... set a world record.
2006-09-20 08:17:52 · answer #6 · answered by betterlife_travel 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The heaviest baby ever born in the world was around 23lb... (heavy) my twins are 6months and they're not even that!!
2006-09-20 20:59:03 · answer #7 · answered by Samantha B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hm... i think it's hard to know the lowest weight in a newborn... did you mean full term, or it could be a preemie? because i have a friend whose baby was born when 4 months of pregnant, and it weighed only one pound!
2006-09-20 08:20:34 · answer #8 · answered by Feed the models! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My granddaughter was less than 2 pounds when she was born, was 6 months in intensive care, but I know there has been babies born less than that and have survived.
2006-09-20 08:25:04 · answer #9 · answered by braveheart321 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the lowest i know of was2 pound and jackie chan weighed nearly 15 pound at birth
2006-09-20 22:14:29 · answer #10 · answered by BEX 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋