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Published January 14, 2015
A British mom who gorged on beef throughout her pregnancy gave birth to one of the biggest newborns in British history, The Sun reported Friday.
At a whopping 13 pounds, 15 ounces, Sharon Needham's son Harry fits into outfits for three to six-month-olds.
Long-serving medical staff gasped in disbelief as exhausted Sharon, 35, gave birth by Caesarean.
"One of them joked, 'Have you got a school uniform ready?' and another said, 'That's not an umbilical cord, it's a fireman's hose'. It took three of them to lift him out,” Needham said.
"If we hadn't been in the operating room, I'd have thought they had passed me a three-month-old," she said.
The mother, who has no history of large babies in the family, revealed she had wolfed down beef throughout her pregnancy.
"I don't normally eat beef much but I just wanted roast beef, steak and chips, steak pies — anything with beef. When I saw Harry I half expected him to ask for steak and chips," she said.
Sharon had known she was in for a bruiser after being unable to walk in her final week of pregnancy — which had not happened with her four previous children.
The heaviest newborn ever recorded was a 23 pound, 12 ounce boy delivered by Anna Bates in Ohio in 1879. The baby died after 11 hours.
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