Baby Born in Silchar, Assam Creates Record, Weighs 5.2 Kg at Birth

GUWAHATI: In Silchar, Assam, a woman has given birth to a baby boy weighing 5.2 kg, which is regarded as the heaviest weight at birth for a newborn in the state to date.

According to the doctors, it was a case of late delivery. Doctors said that they had no idea that the baby would weigh 5.2 kg.

Meanwhile, Dr. Hanif Mohammad Afsar Alam Laskar of Satindra Mohan Dev Civil Hospital while talking to Hindustan Times said that this is the heaviest baby ever born in Assam. He said that the baby born usually weighs around 2.5 kg. Earlier babies weighing up to 4 kg have been born but 5.2 kg for a newborn is a unique case.

A team of senior doctors at the government hospital performed the cesarean operation on Tuesday afternoon. This is the second child of Jaya Das and Badal Das, the weight of their first child was about 3.8 kg at birth. Lashkar said that due to Coronavirus, the family delayed the delivery due to fear of Covid-19 infection. Most babies are born between the 38th and 42nd weeks.

Initially, the family was advised to go to Silchar Medical College and Hospital but they decided against it because of many Covid-19 patients in the hospital.

Hospital authorities have requested everyone to reach out to them on time even if the pregnant mother is Covid-19 positive. There were several cases when the mother was Covid-19 infected but the doctors did not hesitate in performing the cesarean operation for the delivery.

Earlier in 2018, a 38-year-old woman gave birth to a 5.2kg baby through normal delivery at the Government Kasturba Gandhi Hospital (KGH) for Women and Children, Chennai.

S. Vijaya, director of the Institute of Social Obstetrics and KGH, said this was the second child for the woman. Her first child, a boy, who was born 10 years ago, weighed 3.9kg.

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