O baby: 14-pound ‘Super Tonio’ creates Mexican sensation

THEY’RE calling him Super Tonio — and at a whopping birth weight of 14.1 pounds, the ‘little’ fellow is causing a sensation in the Mexican resort city of Cancun.

O baby: 14-pound ‘Super Tonio’  creates Mexican sensation

Cancun residents have crowded the nursery ward’s window to see Antonio Vasconcelos, who was born early on Monday by Caesarean section at Jesus Kumate Rodriguez hospital.

Yesterday, doctors reduced his diet from five ounces to three ounces of milk every three hours. In three days, Tonio gained seven ounces, weighing in last night at 6.5kg. He measures 55cm in length.

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