Kiev Jan 12 (IANS) A baby boy born in Ukraine weighing 7.09 kg is believed to be the heaviest newborn in the country media reported on Friday.
The healthy boy was born on January 3 in the southern city of Zaporizhzhya by Caesarean-section to a 40-year-old woman Xinhua news agency reported.
The mother has seven daughters and all of them weighed more than 5 kg at birth.
Newborn babies in Ukraine generally weigh between 2.8 kg and 4 kg.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records the world s biggest healthy newborn was a 10.2 kg boy born in Italy in 1955.
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