Mum Gemma Tevendale, 26, gave birth to baby Suzie Gzowski three weeks ago. Gemma’s labour lasted only 44 minutes, she gave birth naturally with gas and air and she needed no stitches.
Gemma, from Swindon, Wiltshire, told The Sun that her midwife was stunned.
“They’d said she was going to be big - between 10 to 11 pounds. But when they saw she was 12lbs 12oz they thought the scales had broken.”The newborn already had two teeth at birth, and is now wearing clothes for babies aged three to six months, even though she is under a month old.Suzie’s birth weight was almost double that of the average newborn in the UK, which is 7.5 lb for boys and 7.25 lb for girls.
“When we put her in a 0-3 months suit she looked like she was going to explode out of it”, Gemma said. She explained that her midwife thought eating a lot of fish during her pregnancy might have contributed to her large baby.Gemma said: “I do like fish four times a week. I hadn’t gone overboard with it, although I probably had more than I should – usually tuna and smoked salmon.”Gemma’s two older children were also unusually heavy at birth with son Vincent, now six, weighing 10lb 10oz and daughter Violet, four, 11lb 2oz.
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