Maxxandra Ford got the shock of her life when the doctor told her she was 35 weeks pregnant... but there was another big surprise in store.
A few weeks later the Florida mother-of two delivered baby Avery Denton, a 14.1 pound baby boy.
Avery, who was delivered naturally after a grueling 18-hour labour, is the biggest baby on record at St. Joseph’s Women's Hospital in Tampa and he is also one of the heaviest babies ever to be born in the state, where the average birth weight is seven pounds, seven ounces.
Speaking to ABC News, Maxxandra recalled the moment she realised her son was larger than average: "They were like, ‘Your baby weighed 14 pounds and one ounce.’ ‘What!? My baby weighed what?!’ They were like, ‘Your baby is like adorably huge.’"
Avery is a healthy baby and has already joined his one-year-old sister and five-year-old brother at the family's home.
According to the
Guinness Book of Records, 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.
