A MOTHER in Shanxi Province has a huge bundle of joy on her hands, having recently given birth to a 6.3-kg baby boy.

    The infant was born by Caesarean section at the Chongji Maternity Hospital in Yucheng City, Tencent News reported.

    The child, whose name was not publicized, was delivered at 7:25 p.m. Aug. 23.

    When born he weighed the same as an average 3-month-old.

    The second child of the woman, surnamed Tian, the baby was something of a shocker for hospital staff.

    “It’s the first time I’ve delivered such a huge baby in my 30-year career,” Chongji Maternity’s director said.

    The newborn’s weight is in fact almost double the average weight of newborns, at up to 3 kg, based on child-growth standards charts by the World Health Organization.

    Pictures posted by Tencent news on QQ.com showed the rosy-cheeked baby happily drinking from a milk bottle and crying in his incubator, with his plump fists raised in the air.

    In some of them, he is seen soundly dozing next to his 34-year-old mother.

    According to the Guinness World Records website, while big, the heavyweight baby is nowhere near a record breaker.

    The heaviest baby in the world was a 10.8-kg boy born to a Canadian “giantess,” Anna Bates, in the U.S. state of Ohio on Jan. 19, 1879. The boy died 11 hours later.

    Another who came close to that record was an Ita-lian baby born in September 1955 who weighed 10.2 kg.

    A few of the heaviest babies on record were born large due to genetic abnormalities.

    (SD-Agencies)