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Is the 19 lb, 2-foot-long baby born in Jakarta the largest ever for Indonesia?

April 26, 2017baby born Indonesia Jakarta largest lb

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Is the 19 lb, 2-foot-long baby born in Jakarta the largest ever for Indonesia?

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A mother in Jakarta, Indonesia, delivered a 19.2-pound, 2-foot-long child on Monday via Caesarean section. In retrospect, giving birth to a 9 pound baby now seems trivial. The 19.2 lb baby is now recorded as the largest baby born in Indonesia and just a few pounds short of the world record holder, a 23 lb. baby born in 1879. The baby’s arrival was reported on TODAY Thursday. Even though the mother did not have to deliver the baby naturally, the surgery was still a risk with such a large baby. The sheer size of this “infant” dwarfs the other babies in the hospital nursery. “This heavy baby made the surgery really tough, especially the process of taking him out of his mum’s womb,” Dr. Binsar Sitanggang told Agence France-Presse.