World's Tallest Man Welcomes Not-So-Tall Baby Boy
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}China's Bao Xishun, considered to be the world's tallest man, became a father this week with the birth of his first child, Reuters reported.
Bao's baby boy came into the world at 22 inches, a slightly above average height (most boy babies are between 19 and 20 inches long at birth), but more than half a foot shorter than the world record of 29.5 set by a Chinese baby last year, according to the report.
The boy weighed 9.26 pounds, beating the average of 7 to 8 pounds.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Bao, a 7-foot-9-inch herdsman from Inner Mongolia, married Xia Shujuan, a 5-foot-6-inch pygmy, last year.
Bao told the media previously that if he did have a boy he hoped he'd stand about 6-foot-5 inches tall so that he could play basketball, the report said.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Bao briefly lost his Guinness World Records title as the tallest man to Ukrainian Leonid Stadnyk but regained it in August when Stadnyk refused to be measured.