“A Tennessee mom just gave birth to a baby almost twice the size of an average newborn… because😱….

His arrival was especially meaningful for the family because Shelby had experienced a pregnancy loss exactly one year earlier. Cassian was born on her 30th birthday, and she described him as the “brightest rainbow” they had been waiting for. Now home with his three older brothers, he has officially completed their family of six. 

Guinness World Records lists the heaviest recorded birth as a 22-pound (9.98 kg) baby born in Seville, Ohio, in 1879 to Anna Bates. The baby, known as “Babe,” was also 28 inches long!