(Kisaran, Indonesia) - A newborn baby boy thought to be Indonesia's heaviest captured the country's attention on Friday, only five days after his birth.
Doctors said the newborn came into the world via Caesarean section at a record 19.2 pounds. Baby Muhammad Akbar Risuddin -- which means "Great" in Arabic -- was born to a diabetic mother in a 40-minute caesarean delivery that was complicated because of his unusual weight and size, according to doctors at the hospital in Kisaran.
The newborn measured 24 inches when he was born on Monday at the Abdul Manan hospital in the northern town on the strictly Islamic island of Sumatra. Doctors said the baby's extreme weight was the result of receiving excessive glucose from his mother during pregnancy.
The boy was the third child of proud parents Muhammad Hasanuddin, 50, and mother Ani, 41, who like many Indonesians goes by a single name. Ani said she was enjoying all the attention. "I feel happy to have this baby, and I am also happy to be shown on television," she said. His two "little" brothers weighed a mere 11.6 pounds and 9 .9 pounds at birth. The former Indonesian record holder was a 14.7-pound baby boy born on the outskirts of the capital, Jakarta, in 2007.
Guinness World Records cites the heaviest baby as being born in the United States in 1879, weighing 23.75 pounds; however, it died 11 hours after birth. The book also cites 22.5-pounds.
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