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KIEV, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- A baby boy born in southern Ukraine, weighing 7.09 kg, is believed to be the heaviest newborn in the country, local media reported Friday.
The healthy boy was born on Jan. 3 in the city of Zaporizhzhya by cesarean section to a 40-year-old woman.
The mother has seven daughters and all of them weighed more than 5 kg at birth.
Newborn babies in Ukraine generally weigh between 2.8 kg and 4 kg.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the world's biggest healthy newborn was a 10.2-kg boy born in Italy in 1955.
