Childbirth is one of the most physically painful things for a woman.
In Australia, the average weight of a newborn baby is seven pounds, six ounces. That’s 3.3 kilos.
So you can imagine our faces when we heard that a Perth mother has just given birth to a baby boy weighing nearly double the average size.
First-time mum Breanna Sykes, 18, has just given birth to a healthy baby boy, weighing in at 13 pounds 2 ounces. Or 5.9 kilos.
"It was a very big surprise," Sykes, who is from Carramar, Western Australia, told PerthNow.