Natashia Corrigan dreamed of having “a little fat baby,” but she wasn’t prepared for little Brian Liddle Jr. The boy weighed in at 13 pounds, 4 ounces when he was born in January, shocking his mom.
The baby, notes the Herald Sun, is one of the biggest ever born in Australia. He came in at twice the average birth weight and now holds the heaviest baby record at the hospital where he was born, Mercy Hospital for WomeNn outside of Melbourne. The largest baby ever born, according to Guinness World Records, was a 22-pound boy born in Seville, Ohio, in 1879. The boy, called “Babe,” died 11 hours later.
It was a 7-hour natural birth. Corrigan said she had baby Brian’s father, Brian Liddle, and her sister by her side throughout the labor.
Brian Jr. made headlines in Australia in January, but only recently he’s become a worldwide star as photos of his chubby cheeks and arms spread across the Internet. In a Facebook post, Corrigan said she was “overwhelmed” by the attention.
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