Meet Manuela Santos de Moura, a giant baby who was born weighing a whopping 10lbs 14oz, and measuring 53 centimetres.
Big little Manuela was also born with a great head of hair, and has been dubbed a ‘super baby’ thanks to her unusual size.
Her mum, Adriana da Silva Santos, said: ‘Manuela is wearing clothes that would be for three-month-old babies.
‘She was born already grown, and I’ll need to buy everything new.’
It was certainly surprising for Manuela, who was born healthy via C-section in Municipal Maternity Hospital in Peruibe, Sao Paulo State on 23 April at 41 weeks, to be quite so big.
Adriana, 29, said: ‘The delivery was scheduled, but I didn’t expect her to be born so huge.
‘It’s a great feeling. She’s smart and has lots of hair.’
Unusually large babies tend to get so big because of an underlying medical condition, such as gestational diabetes.
But this was not so for this mum and daughter.
Adriana told local media: ‘I had no illness or health changes.
‘My diet was normal, and I ate everything. I don’t know what the secret was.’
Mum and baby are doing well, having been discharged from hospital on 26 April.
Adriana said: ‘We are great. Manu is healthy and beautiful.
‘Now, it’s time to enjoy her and live every moment.
‘I’m going to donate everything I have here, because nothing fits her.
‘We’re going to make a new layette. We received four onesies and that’s what she’s wearing.’
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