16lb 1oz boy born in Texas

COMING out weighing more than 16lb, JaMichael Brown may have set the record for the biggest baby ever born in Texas.

Proud parents Janet Johnson and Michael Brown revealed their jumbo-size bundle of joy yesterday. They have three other children, but Brown said they may finally have a star football player in the family.

“Or maybe basketball player,” Brown said. “I was just amazed when he came out, how big he was. I’m just proud of him . . . [we’re a] proud family.”

Johnson, a geriatric nurse who suffered gestational diabetes during her pregnancy with JaMichael, was used to having big babies, but the largest she had ever delivered before weighed in at 8lb. This time around, her doctor told her to expect a baby weighing between 12 and 13lb.

But doctors underestimated just how big JaMichael would be. When he came into the world via Caesarean section last Friday, he weighed 16lb, 1 ounce.

JaMichael was born with a full head of hair, measuring a full 2 feet long with a head measurement of 15 inches and a chest measuring 17 inches.

Those are numbers more associated with a baby three to six-months-old than a just-arrived infant.

JaMichael quickly earned the nickname “The Moose” around hospital corridors, and sent people scurrying to look through the record books. According to Guinness World Records, the biggest baby on record weighed in at 23.12lb at birth back in 1879 in Canada.