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Big baby causes sensation in Mexican city

(AP)
Updated: 2007-02-01 21:30

CANCUN, Mexico - He is called "Super Tonio," and at a whopping birth weight of 14.5 pounds, the little fellow is causing a sensation in this Mexican resort city.

In this image from television, the baby known as "Super Tonio," lies next to an average baby in Jesus Kumate Rodriguez hospital in Cancun Mexico Wednesday Jan.  [AP]

Cancun residents have crowded the nursery ward's window to see Antonio Vasconcelos, who was born early Monday by Caesarean section. The baby drinks 5 ounces of milk every three hours, and measures 22 inches in length.

"We haven't found any abnormality in the child, there are some signs of high blood sugar, and a slight blood infection, but that is being controlled so that the child can get on with his normal life in a few more days," Narciso Perez Bravo, the hospital's director, said on Wednesday.

In this image from television, nurses hold the baby known as 'Super Tonio,' in Jesus Kumate Rodriguez hospital in Cancun Mexico Wednesday Jan. 31, 2007. At a whopping birth weight of 6.6 kilograms (14.5 pounds), the 'little' fellow is causing a sensation in this Mexican resort city. [AP Photo]

In Brazil, a baby born in January 2005 in the city of Salvador weighed 16 pounds, 11 ounces at birth. According to Guinness World Records, the heaviest baby born to a healthy mother was a boy weighing 22 pounds, 8 ounces, born in Aversa, Italy, in September 1955.

Antonio's mother, Teresa Alejandra Cruz, 23, and father, Luis Vasconcelos, 38, said they were proud of the boy, and noted that Cruz had given birth to a baby girl seven years ago who weighed 11.46 pounds.

Antonio Cruz (top) who was born January 28, 2007 weighing 6.4kg (about 14 lbs) and 55cm long (21.7 inches) is seen January 31 alongside an unidentified more averaged sized baby at a hospital in Mexico's resort city of Cancun. [Reuters]