“He was smaller than my hand and much smaller than they [doctors] even thought he would be,” she said. When he was born, doctors told Jay that his son weighed about the same as a can of Coke. “But even when I picked up a can, it felt heavier than Theo,” he told SWNS.
While touring in the summer of 1878, Anna was pregnant for the second time. The boy was born on January 18, 1879, and survived only 11 hours. He was the largest newborn ever recorded, at 23 pounds 9 ounces (10.7 kg) and nearly 30 inches tall (ca.
Cheyenne, who has dark hair and blue-green eyes, isn't the smallest baby ever born. That honor rests with Kwek Yu Xuan, who was born at 7.5 ounces – the weight of an apple – in June 2020 in Singapore.
That's what was written on Jonathon Heeley's discharge papers when he went home from hospital after being born 12 weeks premature and weighing just 374 grams in mid-1992.
Growing up in regional Queensland, Jonathon Heeley was better known as the 'Coke can kid'. When he has born 12 weeks premature at Brisbane's Mater Mothers' Hospital in 1992, Jonathon was Queensland's smallest baby, weighing only slightly more than a can of Coke at 374 g.
Each can of regular Coke currently on hand has a mass of about 384 g. The difference that this represents with respect to the density of water – about 1.0% – is enough to sink the can. (Actually, if the density of the can plus contents is the slightest bit greater than that of water, the can will sink.)
Carbonated soft drinks or sodas are not perishable, and are safe past the date stamped on the container. Eventually flavor and carbonation will decrease.
A woman from Tasmania has become Australia's oldest first-time mother at the age 63. The baby girl was delivered at 34 weeks through a Caesarean operation in Melbourne on 1 August. After years of failed IVF procedures, the new mother, whose partner is 78, conceived using an embryo sourced from an overseas donor.
The baby who holds the title of Australia's biggest newborn was Stephen Lyttle, who was born in 1963 weighing 7.399kg, or 16 pounds 5. The average weight of an Australian newborn is about 3.3kg, or around 7 pounds.
Nonuplets (9)
A set of nonuplets was born on 13 June 1971, in Sydney, Australia to Geraldine Brodrick and her husband Leonard. They were five boys and four girls; two of the boys were stillborn and the last of the surviving babies, a boy named Richard, died six days after the birth.
Guinness World Records officially named Curtis Means, born at 21 weeks and one day at UAB Hospital, the most premature infant to survive.
The earliest a baby has been born and survived is 21 weeks and 5 days. Two babies born prematurely hold the record for this. Surprisingly, the first record holder was born in 1987, at a time when the medical care of premature babies (neonatology) was a very new field.
The current Guinness World Record for the youngest baby to walk is just 6 months old. Wow. But there may be another contender ‒ Delilah Moore could be the new youngest walking baby, walking unaided at 4 months old, having started standing by herself from 3 months old, according to Bury Times.
It is claimed that Barbara Stratzmann (c. 1448 – 1503) of Bönnigheim, Germany, gave birth to 53 children (38 sons and 15 daughters) in a total of 29 births by 1498. She had one set of septuplets, one set of sextuplets, four sets of triplets and five sets of twins.
Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara is the oldest verified mother; she was aged 66 years 358 days when she gave birth to twins; she was 130 days older than Adriana Iliescu, who gave birth in 2005 to a baby girl. In both cases, the children were conceived through IVF with donor eggs.
Jeni Bonell and her husband Ray are parents to nine sons and seven daughters, aged between seven and 32.
Jack and Isla O'Kane could be the biggest naturally born twins in the country weighing in at 4.245kg and 3.2kg respectively.
Horsham's Brenton Hallam arrived on his due date, January 1, 2000. In a night which beckoned to cause chaos around the world, Wimmera Base Hospital experienced no serious problems as Mr Hallam arrived into the world.
Ashlee Wilson didn't know she was pregnant
When Mollie Kaur fell pregnant aged 13, she was met with judgmental eyes and labelled 'Australia's youngest mum'.
Xinju Tian, who was 67 years old when she gave birth in 2023, set a new record for the oldest woman to give birth naturally.
According to Guinness World Records, the oldest father who had the documentation to prove it was Australian Les Colley, who in 1991 fathered a son with his third wife when he was 92. Here are some other notable men who had their mojos working well into their golden years.
Sugar-sweetened drinks (such as soda, pop, soft drinks, flavored milks, sports drinks, flavored water with sugar, and juice drinks) contain added sugars. These drinks are different than 100% juice. Children younger than 24 months old should avoid added sugars.
“The quality and taste of expired soda may be severely impacted,” Schwan said. “Carbonated soft drinks or sodas will decrease in flavor and carbonation – they may taste awful and 'flat' if consumed long after their expiration date.”
Children ages 2 to 18 should sip no more than 8 ounces of sugar-sweetened drinks over a seven-day period, the American Heart Association says in new recommendations published Monday in the journal, Circulation. These syrupy sips include sodas, sports and energy drinks, fruit-flavored waters and sweetened teas.