The latest sonnagram we had weighed the baby in at 4.9 pounds (give or take half a pound). A baby gains weight at the rate of about a half a pound a week in the last couple of months of pregnancy. With less than two months left to go, I'm afraid that the baby will be like 12 pounds. (OK, it should be about 8 pounds, if I do the math correctly, and not like I did in college.)BabyCenter.com offers an amusing slide show of the baby's development compared to produce; according to that, he's about the size of a pineapple right now. (Now that would be painful.)
Even at 8 pounds, that's just a fraction of the weight of the world's biggest baby, who was born at 28 pounds, 4 ounces. And on a related note, the world record for the most children took place in Russia, where a woman was pregnant 27 times and gave birth to 69 children between 1725 and 1765. I don't imagine she got very much sleep...
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