Congratulations to GlazedNConfused! His wife had a baby on Thanksgiving day. Their son is 10lbs 10 ounces. Let me put that into perspective: many of you ate some turkey on Thanksgiving, and in many instances, your turkey was about 11 pounds – roughly the same weight as his baby.

Which lead me to thinking, as these incredibly important issues typically do – What is the largest recorded weight for a new born? “The world’s biggest newborn child, 10.2 kg in weight, was born in Italy in 1955. A baby from Great Britain, who was born 7 kg in weight in 1992, is the second in the Guinness Book. ”

So what is that in lbs for you Americans that have no clue what a Kilo anything is (besides cocaine )?

1 kilogram = 2.20462262 pounds

Thus the biggest baby on record was a whopping 22.487150724 lbs! I have to admit, only once have I had a turkey that weighed more! Now consider the mother. What kind of freak of nature would you have to be to have a baby that big? I have the answer: Mrs. Shrek.