# You big baby. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 20, 2005, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-big-baby/285763 "2005-01-20T18:42:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-big-baby/285763/1 "2005-01-20T18:42:18Z")
Brazilian woman gives birth to giant baby. . . [http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-01-20-giant-baby\_x.htm](http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-01-20-giant-baby_x.htm) I bet that felt good. I feel great after taking a 1 pound dump. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-big-baby/285763/2 "2005-01-20T18:45:43Z")
Holy shit! What would have happened to this woman in the days before c-sections? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-big-baby/285763/3 "2005-01-20T19:01:34Z")
Dammit, **Trunk** , just how often to you check Drudge, anyway? 😉 **Fiver** , she probably would have died. Yikes! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-big-baby/285763/4 "2005-01-20T19:05:09Z")
[Here’s a bigger picture of the baby.](http://apnews.myway.com/image/20050120/BRAZIL_BIG_BABY.sff_XVC101_20050120071112.html?date=20050120&docid=D87NQLN80) ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-big-baby/285763/5 "2005-01-20T19:24:39Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Dammit, Trunk, just how often to you check Drudge, anyway? Not often enough. Another poster beat me to it by about 1/2 hour. I really did check here first but his thread title was just “that had to hurt”. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-big-baby/285763/6 "2005-01-20T19:37:39Z")
Holy crap. My two were 8-14 and 9-12.4, and I was really uncomfortable during the end of both pregnancies. I can not imagine what this woman must have felt like. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-big-baby/285763/7 "2005-01-20T21:00:11Z")
Her other babies aren’t that tiny either. I wonder how tall she and her husband are. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-big-baby/285763/8 "2005-01-20T21:56:59Z")
If memory serves, the Guiness Book of World Records cites a 24-lb baby as the largest ever. Their search engine was not entirely helpful with a cite, though. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-big-baby/285763/9 "2005-01-21T01:44:28Z")
I don’t think any jury would convict this woman if she went “Lorenna Bobbit” on her husband. ---
**Author:** ![papergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-big-baby/285763/10 "2005-01-21T02:09:27Z")
Wow. I’m impressed. I had an 11#4oz baby (naturally–far, far TOO naturally, imo) and I truly, seriously, for the first time ever in my life, thought I would die from pain. It was horrid. I was phobic about getting pregnant ever again. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-big-baby/285763/11 "2005-01-21T10:15:43Z")
[hijack]Very large infants are usually born to mothers with diabetes. They have to followed very closly for the first few days of life, as they’re blood sugar can drop suddenly and they can die.[/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-big-baby/285763/12 "2005-01-21T11:03:36Z")
Aahh! This giant baby will devour us all! {dives into harbour} ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-big-baby/285763/13 "2005-01-21T11:05:54Z")
> [@iampunha](#): > > If memory serves, the Guiness Book of World Records cites a 24-lb baby as the largest ever. Their search engine was not entirely helpful with a cite, though. :eek: :eek: :eek: _faints_ ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-big-baby/285763/14 "2005-01-21T12:28:53Z")
To illustrate the weird yet pragmatic thing that is my brain: The very first thought I had was: “huh. Bet they had to send some poor intern running down to peds - there’s no way the neo-natal intensive care unit had diapers that big on their shelves!” I am such a dork. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-big-baby/285763/15 "2005-01-21T13:50:24Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > [hijack]Very large infants are usually born to mothers with diabetes. They have to followed very closly for the first few days of life, as they’re blood sugar can drop suddenly and they can die.[/hijack] My son was poked for glucose tests regularly. Even though I’m not diabetic. I wasn’t pleased, but whaddayagonnado? ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-big-baby/285763/16 "2005-01-21T14:20:48Z")
I’d be careful before trying to circumcise that kid. “Oh I KNOW you didn’t just try to cut a piece of my dick off, FOOL!” SMACK!