The title seems a contradiction because one imagines a newborn as a baby so tiny that you can barely catch, but the case of giant babies born with an exceptional size go from being a curiosity to being high-risk newborns.
A couple of days ago we echoed the news of the birth in Siberia of a baby weighing more than 6 kilos and a size of 65 cm. Interestingly, this week a baby of enormous proportions was also born in San Juan de los Morros, Venezuela. He has weighed 8 kilos and has measured 66 cm at birth, a size according to a child between 6 and 7 months of age but nothing typical of a newborn.
To these giant babies born with an average weight higher than normal they are known as macrosomic babies, more frequent in male fetuses.
The specialists explain that it is not a case of childhood obesity, but of babies with excessive weight due to other circumstances such as gestational diabetes developed by her mother during pregnancy. The inability to regulate blood sugar levels and insulin stimulation causes the birth of larger babies.
Mireia has talked to us in detail about the causes and risks that macrosomic babies born too large are carrying throughout their lives.
The Venezuelan baby, like most macrosomic babies, has been born by caesarean section and is admitted with a reserved prognosis to control his metabolic disorders such as the hypoglycemia he suffers.
He is the second largest baby in the world (the largest with 10.2 kilos of weight was born in Italy in 1955) but he holds the record in Latin America. A record that I do not think he wanted to show because his peculiarity puts his health and his life at risk.
