Glad to read that Ms. Long didn't have to push Babyperson Virginia out of the birth canal...
OMAHA, Neb. - An Omaha woman has given birth to a
14-pound, 3-ounce girl.
Jirong Long required a Caesarean section to deliver Virginia Wenjing You on Nov. 26. Virginia is the largest baby delivered at Creighton University Medical Center in its 130-year history, spokesman Ed Finan said.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest baby ever delivered was a boy weighing 23 pounds, 12 ounces in Seville, Ohio, in 1879.
Long, a Creighton genetics research fellow, said the size of her daughter is even more amazing because she and her husband, Mingrong You, are not big people.
Long is about 5 feet 4. She weighed 130 pounds before her pregnancy and peaked at 192 while she was expecting.
Her husband is about 5-9 and weighs 160 pounds.
Five days after Long's Nov. 20 due date, doctors induced labor with the expectation that the baby would be 8 or 9 pounds. Long said they eventually decided to perform the C-section because it was too dangerous for her to deliver naturally.
Long said she and her baby had no complications and are in good health.
Virginia already is wearing 6-month-old's clothing.
"She has a lot of hair and she is so cute," Long said. "She is very beautiful, and I am very, very happy."