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World's Tallest Man Welcomes a Son

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• The newborn baby of Bao Xishun, a herdsman listed by the Guinness World Records as the tallest living man at 7-feet, 9-inches, is seen at a hospital in Zunhua, Hebei province October 2, 2008.
• Bao Xishun, 57, looks at his newborn baby at a hospital in Zunhua, Hebei province October 2, 2008. The world's tallest man, China's Bao Xishun, became the world's tallest father this week with the birth of his first child, a boy whose initial height seems a compromise between his gigantic dad and average-sized mom.
• Bao Xishun, 57, listed by the Guinness World Records as the tallest living man, chats with his 5-foot, 5-inch tall pregnant wife Xia Shujuan, 29, at their apartment in Zunhua, Hebei province September 25, 2008.
• Bao Xishun, 57, touches the belly of his pregnant wife Xia Shujuan, 29, as they pose for a photograph at their apartment in Zunhua, Hebei province September 25, 2008.
• Bao Xishun, 57, poses for photograph with his pregnant wife Xia Shujuan, 29, at their apartment in Zunhua, Hebei province September 25, 2008. Guinness World Records returned the title of world's tallest man to China's Bao after Ukrainian Leonid Stadnyk refused to be measured under new guidelines.
• Bao Xishun, listed by the Guinness World Records as the tallest living man at 7-feet, 9-inches, and his wife Xia Shujuan, 29, 5-feet, 5-inches tall, leave after a news conference in Baotou in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region July 13, 2007. The world's tallest man, whose search for a bride covered the world, ended up marrying a woman from his hometown nearly half his age and more than two feet shorter, Chinese media reported.
• The Guinness World Record's tallest living man, Bao Xishun, 7-feet, 9-inches, poses for photographs with He Pingping, 19, a 2-foot, 5-inch tall man listed as the world's shortest man, during a visit to a park in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region February 16, 2008.