The huge, but not record-setting 19 pound Indonesian baby (19 pounds, 2 ounces, to be exact) now has a name: Akbar Risuddin, or "the Great" in Arabic. Ani, his mother from Jakarta, Indonesia, delivered the 2-foot-long baby boy on Monday via C-section.Let's be honest, however. There was no way this 19 pound Indonesian baby was coming out any way except via C-section.
Akbar, while setting an Indonesian record, isn't even close to the largest baby ever born. The largest baby born of 23 pounds set in 1879. At 19 pounds, this Indonesian baby falls short by over 20 percent.
How did Akbar Risuddin get so large? Probably because of his mother's gestational diabetes. This is precisely why monitoring for gestational diabetes is carried out: the excess glucose in the blood from the mother's diabetes will cause a large baby, in this case a 19 pound Indonesian baby.
That's probably why the baby size record was set in the 1800s. Modern medicine is much more concerned about gestational diabetes.
The large size of such a baby is a danger to both the mother and the baby. At this point, however, doctors say the 19 pound Indonesian baby is doing well, and despite the fact that his size complicated the birth, so is mother Ani.
The Risuddin family has a history of larger babies, though nothing like this 19 pound Indonesian wonder baby. Akbar is the third child of Hasanuddin, 50, and Ani, 41. His two "tiny" brothers weighed in at 11.6 pounds and 9.9 pounds at birth.
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