A baby weighing in at 13.4 pounds and measuring nearly 23 inches was born naturally last week in a German hospital.
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The baby's mother was suffering from undiagnosed gestational diabetes that resulted in baby Jasleen's being born at a higher birth weight, according to a translated news release from the University Hospital Leipzig.
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Professor Holger Stepan, director of obstetrics at the hospital, said the facility had assembled a team of midwives and doctors to oversee the birth because of Jasleen's size.
"We still decided to try a natural birth, as a child of this size and [with] the excess weight of the mother, a cesarean section would have been associated with significant risk," Stepan said in a translated statement.
Jasleen's mother, who arrived at the hospital for the birth, was not a patient there before that and Stepan said this was the largest baby he had delivered. The baby was doing well in the neonatal unit, the hospital said.