Bengaluru: A 19-year-old woman in Hassan district has given birth to a baby girl weighing about 6.82 kg, which is considered to be ‘heaviest’ in India.
Nandini from Doddihalli in Belur taluk gave birth to the baby on May 23 around 6.15 pm at Hassan Institute of Medical Sciences. Nandini’s husband Arun works for a bakery. Both baby and mother are said to be healthy.

“The baby was delivered after conducting a caesarean surgery” said HIMS Medical Superintendent Dr K Shankar.

“It is the heaviest baby so far reported in India, last one reported was somewhere around 5.8 kgs. We have done the abdominal scanning of the baby, we will be doing blood test as well,” Shankar said.

As the case is ‘unusual” doctors have decided to keep the baby under observation and are assessing the reason for the over weight.