A mum has given birth to a baby weighing an incredible 11lbs 8oz - making the new-born the average size of a three month old. Sarah Dines, 35, gave birth to baby Montague 11 months ago via an emergency C-section.
Baby Monty went straight into toddler clothes and now wears items made for two to three year olds. Initially wanting a water birth at her home in Broadstone, Dorset, without pain relief, Sarah had to eventually have a C-section, partly due to the size of her baby.
Sarah said: "He was so big when he was born, he looked ridiculous. When the doctor's took him out, they were all laughing and I didn't know why at first. One of them said he was ready for school, and the little towel they wrapped him just didn't fit. He was in the 99.9th centile for height and 99.6th for weight."
None of the clothes Sarah brought in for Monty fit when he was first born. She said: "Even the little cap they gave him at the hospital was too small. My sister had to run and buy me some nappies because none of the ones we had fit him either.
"As he's got older he's gone up and up in sizes, he's always been in bigger clothes than his age. He's a week off being one and he's in stuff for a 2-3 year old."
None of Sarah's doctors can account for why Monty was born so big. Sarah said: "After he was born we were both tested for gestational diabetes loads of times, but it was never positive.
"I'm 5 foot 9, and my husband Elliott, 41, is six foot, so we were never going to have a small baby. Neither of us were particularly big when we born, I think I just carry big babies."
Sarah felt she had a large bump, but docs all predicted Monty would weigh around 8lbs. She said: "All the scans were normal, so I was all set to go to have a home birth.
"Initially, I just wanted to have a water-birth and that was going to be my own form of pain relief. Monty was 10 days late, so it got to the point where the doctor was talking about a planned C-section or inducing me."
Sarah ended up needing to go to the hospital for an emergency C-section. She said: "My water broke in the morning, and I was in full labour that evening, but I hadn't dilated at all.
"The pain got so bad that I asked for gas and air, and then eventually we had to go into hospital. I didn't want to be induced, and we had spoke about a planned C-section because he was so late, we even did all the paperwork. That ended up being useful because we had to go in for the emergency C-section, we'd filled in all the forms."
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