{"id":9591,"date":"2013-08-08T03:53:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T03:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/british-woman-s-weighty-baby-breaks-spanish\/"},"modified":"2013-08-08T03:52:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T03:52:41","slug":"british-woman-s-weighty-baby-breaks-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/british-woman-s-weighty-baby-breaks-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"British Woman&#8217;s Weighty Baby Breaks Spanish Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Doctors say a British woman has given birth to the biggest baby ever born naturally in Spain &#8211; a girl weighing 6.2kg.}}<\/p>\n<p>Maxime Marin, 40, had what doctors described as an &#8220;uncomplicated&#8221; delivery at the Hospital Marina Salud in Denia, Alicante.<\/p>\n<p>The mother, who lives in Spain with her Colombian partner, said she knew the baby would be big &#8220;but not that big&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did not even need an epidural,&#8221; Ms Marin is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Both are believed to be doing well, although the newborn &#8211; Maria Lorena &#8211; remains in the neonatal care unit.<\/p>\n<p>Larger babies are often delivered via caesarean section.<\/p>\n<p>Maxime Marin&#8217;s three other children all weighed at least 4.5kg when they were born, media reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the world&#8217;s heaviest baby was born to Anna Bates of Canada in 1879. <\/p>\n<p>The baby weighed 10.5kg but died 11 hours after birth. Both of the baby&#8217;s parents had giantism.<\/p>\n<p>A woman in Brazil gave birth to a son weighing 8kg by caesarean section in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>In March, George King became the UK&#8217;s second biggest baby born naturally &#8211; weighing in at 7kg.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3368 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dddd-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3367 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fff-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Doctors say a British woman has given birth to the biggest baby ever born naturally in Spain &#8211; a girl weighing 6.2kg.}} Maxime Marin, 40, had what doctors described as an &#8220;uncomplicated&#8221; delivery at the Hospital Marina Salud in Denia, Alicante. The mother, who lives in Spain with her Colombian partner, said she knew the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-9591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9591"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=9591"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=9591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}