Record weight baby born in Arunachal Pradesh

Itanagar, Feb 25: Believe it or not, a woman from Seppa under West Kameng district has delivered a 5.7 kg baby through normal delivery at Rama Krishna Mission Hospital here yesterday.

This is the first time in the history of the hospital that a giant baby was delivered that too through normal delivery. Dr Moon Moon Das, under whose supervision the baby was delivered, told to the sources that the baby was delivered through ventose extraction process and this was the first case in the hospital that such a large baby was delivered normally.

On earlier occasions, baby weighing around 5.5 kg was delivered in the hospital through Caesarian operation, the doctor disclosed and added that one of his patient Yaki Noyu, during December last year had also delivered a baby weighing around 5 kg. Chane Pardung wife of Karbia Pardung, was already a mother of two boys and a girl. This was her fourth child.

UNI