BEIJING: A baby weighing 7.04 kilogrammes was born in central Henan Province, setting a new record for being the heaviest newborn in China, local media reported.The 29-year-old mother surnamed Wang gave birth to the super-size baby on Saturday through Caesarean section in Xinxiang City.Both she and the baby are in good condition, the Dahe News said. Wang and her husband are of normal stature and they have a 6-year-old daughter who weighed about 4 kilos at birth.Wang's doctor Ren Xijie said the newborn boy was about 60 centimeters long. His delivery took nearly 20 minutes.Wang said she had no special diet during pregnancy and the only difference w as that she had a much bigger belly than other pregnant women.The largest newborn baby on the Guinness World Records was a 10.1-kg Italian baby born in 1955 and the former national record holder was a 7-kilogram baby born in 2008 in Liaoning Province. 

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 A 15.5-pound baby born in the city of Xinxiang in China's Henan Province has set the record for the heaviest baby born in China, the Times of India reports. 
 
 Chun Chun was born in a caesarean section which lasted around 20 minutes on Saturday. 
 
 Both the mother and baby boy are doing fine, according to doctors who spoke with the Chinese newspaper Dahe Daily. 
 
 According to the Sun, mother Wang Yujuan, 29, told local reporters her pregnancy with the boy felt different than her pregnancy with Chun Chun's big sister, now 6 years old, who weighed 8.8 pounds at birth. 
 
 "I clearly felt that my body was more clumsy than when I had been pregnant with my daughter. My belly was bigger than it was then," Wang said, according to the Sun. "I guessed the baby would be between ten and 11 pounds. I never expected to hear that he weighs 15.5 pounds." 
 
 For the title of China's heaviest newborn, Chun Chun edged out three other babies born between 2008 and 2010, all of whom weighed exactly 15.4 pounds. 
 
 In a study published last year in scientific journal The Lancet, researchers set out to determine what causes high birth weight. 
 
 While they discovered that the baby's genes, or genes shared between mother and child, certainly contribute to high birth weight, the chance a baby will weigh more at birth is greatly increased if the mother gains excessive weight during pregnancy. 
 
 The study defined high birth weight as 8.8 pounds or heavier. 
 
 The heaviest birth listed by Guinness World Records belongs to a baby boy born in 1879 in Ohio, who weighed 23 pounds 12 ounces at birth and whose mother was said to be a "giantess." Unfortunately, the baby died 11 hours after birth. 
 
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– Chun Chun is less than a week old, but it looks like he's already a record-holder in China. He weighed 15.5 pounds at birth, with local media in central Henan province speculating that he's the biggest newborn in the nation's history, reports the Times of India. He and mom are doing well after the C-section. Even if Chun Chun officially takes the honor in China, he falls short of the Guinness record: A woman in Ohio gave birth to a 23.7-pound boy in 1879. Click for more, including video of the baby.