Meet Harry Crossland, the giant newborn baby who made his heavyweight arrival into the world tipping the scales at almost a stone.
Harry weighed in at an amazing 13lb 15oz, leaving hospital staff - and mother Sharon Needham - stunned.
And Harry is a record breaker at Doncaster Royal Infirmary where he is the heaviest birth since records began.
Miss Needham, 35, and partner Mechanic Paul Crossland, 51, have had to dump the smaller clothes they were planning to use for their son, who is double the size of the average newborn.
Instead he is already in clothes ordinary babies would wear at age six.
Mother of five Miss Needham, of Bessacarr, Doncaster, had to give birth by Caesarean section because Harry was too big for a normal birth.
She was conscious during the operation but was shielded from the operation by a curtain as Paul held her hand. But they were left speechless when the midwife handed Harry over.
She said: ‘We were both flabbergasted . When the nurses popped him over the curtain we were both speechless. I thought they'd given me someone else's baby.
‘I had a growth scan the day before and the staff said he would be about nine and a half pounds so it was a massive shock.
‘The nurses were shocked as well. They said he was the biggest baby the hospital had ever delivered.
‘When we went up to the special care ward, they couldn't believe he was newborn, they thought he had been transferred to the wrong ward and should have gone to the paediatric ward.’
Harry weighed more than the combined weight of his 13-year-old twin siblings, Siobhan and Kyle, who were born totalling 12lb 14oz.
Miss Needham's eldest Nikkita, 15, weighed 8lb 11oz and daughter Elisha, ten was 7lb 2oz.
The astonished mother, who herself weighed 7lb 7oz, said: ‘There has never been a history of big babies in the family but I knew he would be fairly heavy because I couldn't walk with Harry in the final days of pregnancy.
‘I never experienced that with any of the other children, even with the twins, I could walk fine when I was pregnant with them.’
Medical staff calculated that she was carrying around three litres of water with Harry and her placenta weighed much heavier than normal - at 1.6kg.
But she can't explain why her son was so heavy and she didn't eat large amounts of food during pregnancy.
Miss Needham added: ‘I couldn't eat at all because I felt full after every mouthful.
‘He must have been putting pressure on my stomach.’
Mr Crossland said: ‘It was a huge surprise.’
Britain's heaviest newborn was Guy Warwick Carr, delivered in Cumbria in 1992weighing 15lb 8oz.
The heaviest baby ever born was produced by Anna Bates of Canada in 1879,according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
She weighed 23lb 12lb and died 11 hours after birth.
The record for a baby which survived is held by a boy born weighing 22lb 8oz at Aversa, Italy, in 1955.
The heaviest recent birth was a boy born last September to a woman in Northern Sumatra Indonesia at 19lb 3oz.
