Off the wire
British woman arrested for "preparing terrorist acts" at Heathrow Airport  • China, CEE countries to hold local cooperation year  • Chinese Vice Premier stresses reform of rural supply and marketing cooperatives  • IS gunmen kill 3 family members in Iraq  • UAE slams Qatar's accusation of airspace violation as "incorrect"  • Roundup: Experts urge enhanced monitoring of South Sudan's fragile truce  • Laos transfers 104 telecom fraud suspects to China  • Turkey's jailed Pro-Kurdish party leader appears before court for first time  • China Focus: Platforms launched to help Chinese companies recruit talent  • 1st Ld-Writethru: 104 telecom fraud suspects returned to China from Laos  
You are here:  

Baby weighing over 7 kg born in Ukraine

Xinhua,January 12, 2018 Adjust font size:

KIEV, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- A baby boy born in southern Ukraine, weighing 7.09 kg, is believed to be the heaviest newborn in the country, local media reported Friday.

The healthy boy was born on Jan. 3 in the city of Zaporizhzhya by cesarean section to a 40-year-old woman.

The mother has seven daughters and all of them weighed more than 5 kg at birth.

Newborn babies in Ukraine generally weigh between 2.8 kg and 4 kg.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the world's biggest healthy newborn was a 10.2-kg boy born in Italy in 1955. Enditem