Mexico: 14-pound baby born in Cancun

He is called “Super Tonio”, and at a whopping birth weight of more than 14 pounds, the “little” fellow is causing a sensation in the Mexican resort 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. The baby drinks five ounces of milk every three hours, and is 22 inches long.

“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,” said hospital director Narciso Perez Bravo.

In Brazil, a baby born in January 2005 in the city of Salvador weighed 16 pounds 11 ounces at birth.

According to Guinness World Records, the heaviest baby born to a healthy mother was a boy weighing 22 pounds 8 ounces, 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 Cruz had given birth to a baby girl seven years ago who weighed more than 11 pounds.

”It’s good, because now with this one, we’ll have a pair of big babies,“ said Vasconcelos.