While the #Tembisa10 saga has been making headlines in South Africa, a woman over in the United Kingdom (UK) is in a spotlight of her own after giving birth to a baby weighing more than 6 kilograms!
This big bundle of joy came as a surprise to 31-year-old mom, Cherral Mitchell, who explains that Alpha was conceived despite her intrauterine contraceptive device.
He is believed to be the the third biggest new born in the UK, and was delivered with some help from two midwives on Thursday, October 28.
Alpha, who has now been nicknamed “Baby Hippo” and “Butter Bean”, was estimated to be 5kg in a scan at 37 weeks but he ballooned by 1.3kg before he was born at 38 weeks at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
“Everyone kept laughing when his head came out. My husband Tyson was like ‘oh my God he’s chunky’,” Mitchell said.
But doctors believe that Alpha was snacking on his mom’s sugary fluids while in the womb. “They think that because I was diagnosed quite late with gestational diabetes, Alpha was in amniotic fluid that was sweeter,” she expressed.
Mitchell already has a 3-year-old son, and daughters aged 4 and 10 months.
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Picture: Cherral Mitchell / SWNS