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NY woman gives birth to 12 pound baby!!!
« on: Aug 1st, 2003, 8:15am »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
Woman Gives Birth to 12-Pound Baby  
KINGSTON, N.Y. - A 37-year-old woman gave birth to a baby boy weighing 12 pounds 5 ounces.  
 
   
 
Matthew Joseph Potyak was born by Caesarean section at 11:10 a.m. Tuesday in Benedictine Hospital in Kingston, 50 miles south of Albany.  
 
 
"When his head came out, the one doctor said, 'Oh my God, he's enormous,'" his mother, Jane McSpirit, told the Kingston Daily Freeman in Thursday editions. "Then his hand came out, and they said, 'Look how big his hand is.' I thought he was going to jump out all by himself."  
 
 
Most newborns weigh between 7 and 9 pounds, and don't reach Matthew's birth weight until they are between 5 and 10 weeks old, said hospital spokeswoman Lucy Brandenburg.  
 
 
Matthew has one older sister. McSpirit's 3-year-old daughter Samantha weighed 10 pounds 6 ounces at birth.  
 
 
McSpirit and Joseph Potyak said they don't plan to have any more children.  
 
 
In October 2001, then-28-year-old Amy Volke-Baldwin, of Batavia, gave birth to a baby girl weighing 14 pounds 3 ounces at Strong Memorial Hospital. She had suffered from diabetes during her pregnancy.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
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I was gonna say before I read the end of this article that I bet anything she suffered from gestational diabetes!  I had that with my last child and had to go in every 3 weeks to have him measured by ultrasound and they finally induced me at close to a month early becuase they were afraid he was reaching close to 10 pounds.  The dr told me at that time, that if they get over 10 pounds their risk of having childhood diabetes goes way up, so they wanted to get him out sooner.
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Re: NY woman gives birth to 12 pound baby!!!
« Reply #2 on: Aug 1st, 2003, 10:29am »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
AHA!  My dad weighed over 12 lbs at birth.  One of his sisters, Mary Belle, died at age 9 from diabetes and I believe there are a few others, on my dad's side, who had/have diabetes.  Obviously, I'm a prime candidate, as are my children and grandchildren.  There are several people in my SIL's family who are diabetic.  Even on my husband's side, I'm pretty sure many of them had diabetes.  Damn!
 
Oh geesh!  Back to the drawing board...uh....family tree.
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My family does not suffer from diabetes so much as high insulin production, which when you're younger causes bouts of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), but as you get older, your body starts to become resistant to the insulin and can turn into diabetes.
 
My husband's family, they are pretty much all diabetics...
 
One of the things I have been watching closely is the stem cell research they have been doing on diabetes, especially considering that we banked my youngest son's cord blood. It would be very cool some day to be able to cure members of the family from their diabetes with that cord blood.
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I read this to my wife (our youngest was 10 1/2 pounds) and all she coud say was OUCH!! :yikes:
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« Reply #5 on: Aug 3rd, 2003, 9:42pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
wow... i can't imagine how those kids were able to get out of their moms...  owww...
 
im glad im a man... hhehehehe Grin
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