Longest Delivery
Largest Baby
Back in 1879, Anna Bates gave birth to the longest and heaviest baby in the world that Guinness has on record. The baby, born in Seville, Ohio, weighed in at 23 pounds, 12 ounces and measured 30 inches long. Sadly, the baby boy passed away just 11 hours after being born.
photo via Wright-Bates
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Shortest Baby
In July 2002, Nisa Juarez of Minneapolis, Minn., was born 108 days premature. Amazingly, she measured just 9.44 inches long at birth. She had to stay hospitalized while she developed, but was eventually allowed to leave the hospital in December of that same year.
Lightest Baby
Born at Loyola University Medical Center in Illinois in 2004, Rumaisa Rahman weighed a mere 9.17 ounces at birth. She was in her mother’s womb for just over 25 weeks, and was 9.5 inches long. Although she needed to be monitored in the hospital for around five months, she was allowed to go home in February of 2005.
First Test-Tube Baby
Louise Brown was a medical marvel when she was born to mom Lesley on July 25, 1978 in Lancashire, UK. The little girl—delivered by C-section and weighing a fairly normal 5 pounds, 12 ounces—was the first baby born successfully via conception outside the womb.
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Most Hair
It would be hard for Guinness to track “most hair” on a newborn baby, but Katie-Lee Webster’s moptop probably takes the cake. Born with a full head of spiky, red strands, she’s got the most amazing hair we’ve seen an infant sporting. Says her dad, Danny, according to The Daily Mail: "No one we've met has ever seen anything like it. We're forever being stopped in the street and asked, 'Is that a wig?'”
photo via Manchester Evening News
Most Teeth
Most babies are all gums, but Sean Keaney was a major exception when he was born in 1990. Teeth normally develop five to eight months after birth, but this little boy had 12 teeth from the start of his life, according to Guinness. They were taken out to prevent feeding difficulties, but his second full set of teeth grew in by 18 months old!
