'I'm glad I had a c-section': Leeds mother gives birth to 11 pound baby

The average weight of a newborn baby boy in the UK is 7lbs 8oz, meaning George was almost 50% heavier than the average newborn at 11lbs 7oz.

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00:00I'm Nicole Taylor, this is my son George and he weighed 11 pound 7.

00:06During the pregnancy I was told that George was going to be big.

00:11At 39 weeks he was scanned and they said he was going to be 9 pound 2.

00:16But then we were really shocked when he was born he was 11 pound 7.

00:20They couldn't wait to get him on the scales.

00:23They were all saying oh my gosh he's massive.

00:26We were really shocked and they couldn't wait basically.

00:30We actually thought there might be something wrong which was really frightening.

00:34But then obviously they did all the tests and everything was fine so we were so happy.

00:39So since he's been home we've had lots of visitors and they have struggled to hold him.

00:44We've had to put pillows under their arms and prop him up.

00:47And then people have also said oh can you take him now because my arm's aching.

00:51I pass him to my husband quite often Tommy because he does get heavy.

00:55But I think Tommy likes him being heavy as well because he's into the gym and he does a few benching presses with him.

01:02He's closed now at zero to three months.

01:05He doesn't fit in 20 of his newborn things that we bought him and we had to take quite a lot back to Next.

01:11So there was rumours going around the hospital I don't know whether it's a true fact.

01:15But it was the biggest baby to be born at the LGI in five years.

01:20So we were really proud because there was loads of medical people coming to see him.

01:24And he did look really big against all the other newborn babies.

01:27And he's just so lovely. He's settled into the family lovely.

01:31And we all love him and he makes us really proud.