A woman in Boston has given birth to a 14.5 pound baby and yes, we also clenched slightly when we heard it.
Caroline and Bryan Rusack’s baby daughter, Carisa, was delivered via Caesarean section at Massachusetts General Hospital at the start of the week.
Caroline told WCVB-TV: “I heard the weight and I was like, ‘Oh my God.’ It validated me because I was in a lot of pain when I was pregnant, so to hear the size, it made sense”.
Her first child also weighed more than the average newborn (which is around seven pounds), at a weight of 10.5 pounds.
While Carisa might be the heaviest baby in Massachusetts this year, she is way off the biggest baby ever. According to The Guinness Book of World Records, that title belongs to a 22.5 pound baby boy born in Italy in 1955.
Caroline and Bryan Rusack with their baby daughter (image via ABC News).
