(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-12-04 17:18

JAKARTA -- A newborn baby boy shocked a Jakarta hospital as he weighed nearly 7 kg when delivered by Caesarean section, local press said Tuesday.

The baby measured 6.9 kg in weight and 62 cm in length when he was born at the Fatmawati Hospital late Monday.

He is the fourth son of a couple living in South Jakarta.

"He has the weight of a four-month-old infant. Normally, a newborn baby measures 2 to 3 kg in weight and 48 to 50 cm in length,"the hospital's spokesperson Lily Amalia was quoted by leading news website Detikcom as saying.

Doctors were still performing thorough medical checkups on the baby to find any abnormalities, she said.