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Baby Super Tonio an instant big celebrity after 14lb birth
He is called "Super Tonio," and at a whopping birth weight of just over 14lb, the "little" fellow is causing a sensation in the Mexican city of Cancun.
Cancun residents have crowded the nursery ward's window to see Antonio Vasconcelos, who was born early Monday by Caesarean section at Jesus Kumate Rodriguez hospital.
Doctors have reduced his diet from five ounces to three ounces of milk every three hours.
In three days, Tonio gained seven ounces. He measures 22in in length.
Narciso Perez Bravo, the hospital's director, said yesterday: "We haven't found any abnormality in the child. There are some signs of high blood sugar, and a slight blood infection, but that is being controlled so that the child can get on with his normal life in a few more days."
In Brazil, a baby born in January 2005 in the city of Salvador weighed over 16lb at birth.
According to Guinness World Records, the heaviest baby born to a healthy mother was a boy weighing over 22lb, born in Aversa, Italy in September 1955.
Antonio's mother, Teresa Alejandra Cruz, 23, and father, Luis Vasconcelos, 38, said they were proud of the boy, and noted that Ms Cruz had given birth to a baby girl seven years ago who weighed more than 11lb.
"It's good, because now with this one, we'll have a pair" of big babies, said Mr Vasconcelos.
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