An Orange County couple Richard Sault and Sara Sault are all excited about their new born who weighed 14 pounds and 2 ounces.

The bonny baby had two doctors lift him up amidst gasps when the birth took place by C-section at Laguna Hills on December 23.

The big baby had everyone exclaiming about him which aroused his mother's anxiety. It was only after his father's explanation about the details that she relaxed.

"Fourteen pounds, 2 ounces," he whispered to her.



"Oh my God!" OCRegister.com quoted a nurse as exclaiming.

"He's here! He's big!" someone else said.

Labour and delivery nurses at UCI Medical Centre in Orange failed to recall a baby born over 13 pounds.



Marty Wright, department manager of labour and delivery at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange with her 21 years of service in the hospital encountering births of about 102,000 said : "That's a big baby,"

"I remember one that was nearly 12 pounds, but 14.2? Never!" she added.

Richard Jr. is the size of an average six-month-old, said Dr. Ronald Naglie, a neonatologist at Saddleback Memorial for about 30 years. "He's certainly the biggest newborn I've encountered," said she.

The 211/2 inches baby, Richard Walker Sault had already outgrown his infant car seat and weighed as much as a medium-sized holiday turkey. As per the saying of veteran Saddleback doctors, he is the largest baby ever delivered at Saddleback Memorial Medical Centre in Laguna Hills, and is likely to be in the whole of Orange County.

"We thought our first baby was a miracle, and now we have this little guy," Sault said, immediately correcting himself.

"Guess he's not so little," he stated. AGENCIES