A baby of this very size had grown inside Chrissy Corbitt’s uterus.
Chrissy, of Orange City, was used to having bigger babies, having previously given birth to her first three children at around 9 and 10 pounds each.
But in what was to be her final pregnancy, her belly just kept growing and growing.
Speaking to Inside Edition, Chrissy’s husband, Larry, recalled:
“It was like she had a huge beach ball, and it was getting more and more inflated.”
And then she gave birth – and her daughter weighed nearly a full stone.
“When the pediatrician showed her to me across the curtain, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, she’s huge. I couldn’t believe it. It was like I delivered a toddler,” Chrissy said.
Chrissy, who was 29 at the time, had been 𝑠𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 from 𝑔𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑠 and had been told that her baby would be approximately 10 pounds when she was delivered. Many mothers would cringe at the thought of having a 10-pound baby, but Chrissy’s reality is even more startling!
Wisely, Chrissy gave birth via 𝐶-𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 a week early, and she said that everyone in her operating room cheered when the baby was born, which she’d never had happen before.
Carleigh weighed 13 pounds and 5 ounces when she was born – that’s almost double the weight of an average newborn
It took until Chrissy caught wind of her newborn’s weight that she discovered what all the fuss was about.
“It looked like they pulled a toddler out of my belly. She’s so big”
Fetal macrosomia occurs when a fetus develops to be significantly bigger than the usual infant. According to the Mayo Clinic, newborns that weigh more than 8 pounds, 13 ounces fall into this group, which accounts for about 9% of all babies worldwide.Fetal macrosomia may be caused by maternal conditions, like gestational diabetes, or obesity. In many cases, though, it’s not known why a newborn is born larger than average.
It can cause some complications with birth, but luckily for Chrissy, everything went smoothly for her – even if her OB-GYN was a little 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑.
“When the doctor was pulling her out of me I just start hearing them all laughing and excited in the operating room,” Chrissy said
Everything worked out perfectly for the delighted parents, who arrived home with their baby daughter only to discover that she couldn’t fit into any of her newborn clothing.
Chrissy and Larry fell into the busy routine of new parents after donating all of Carleigh’s too-small clothes and diapers to their local church.
According to Chrissy, Carleigh is a “happy baby” who “smiles all the time”. Bless.
She is very cute and it’s good to know that mom and child are both doing well.
