With no less than seven kilograms of baby Harper Buckley is the heaviest child ever born in the Arnot Odgen Medical Center in New York, Elmira. Harper breaks so the ziekenhuisrecord.
The mother, Joy Buckley, calls Harper a prodigy. They had a 15 percent chance in a normal way to give birth after they had no children could get. Her infertility was due to a hormonal abnormality in the ovaries.
The newborn child is 60 cm long and has an adopted sister and older brother, who also at his birth, 5 kg weighed.
Yet Harper is not the heaviest baby ever in the world. According to the Guinness world Record weighed in at the heaviest child ever to 10.2 kg. The Italian baby was born in 1955. In 1982 in South Africa, a baby born with the same weight. By a groeiziekte was the biggest baby ever.