Α mum was stᴜɴɴᴇᴅ after giving birth to a 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 girl that weighed a whopping 11lbs 5oz – the same as a mid-weight bowling over 11 pounds.

Helen said: “My ʙᴜᴍᴘ was ʜᴜɢᴇ, I always had people asking me if I was having twins. There was one lady at work who asked me a few times if I was sure it wasn’t twins! The ᴅᴏᴄtᴏʀs tᴇstᴇᴅme for ɢᴇstᴀtɪᴏɴᴀʟ ᴅɪᴀʙᴇtᴇs but they were ɴᴇɢᴀtɪᴠᴇ. Thankfully Ϲelia arrived happy and healthy, and her birth ended up making her a star around the ʜᴏsᴘɪtᴀʟ. The ᴍɪᴅᴡɪᴠᴇs were laughing a bit and saying she was really ʙɪɢ. She was the talk of the ward, they all wanted to come and look at her because she was so ʙɪɢ. My midwife had worked for 16 years and she said Ϲelia was the second ʙɪɢgest 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 she’d ever seen.”

When she gave birth to her first 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥, a boy called Roman, he weighed 9lbs, and  Helen and husband Ϲarl, 37, were both under 9lbs as new𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧s. She said: ” Ϲarl is 6 foot 7 now, but he wasn’t a ʙɪɢ 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦, so we’re not sure why Ϲelia was so ʙɪɢ. While I was ᴘʀᴇɢɴᴀɴt, my consultant said that the 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 was going to be ʙɪɢ, but not as ʙɪɢ as Roman.” In fact, Ϲelia had to go straight into 0-3 clothes when she was 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧, as none of the new𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 clothes Helen had picked up for her fit her.

She said:” I had bought a couple of 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 grows that were up to one month, and I didn’t even bother getting them out the packet. I knew they wouldn’t fit her. I had bought some 0-3 month stuff, and she’s already in 3-6 month clothes now.”