A mother has delivered, what is believed to be the third biggest ever baby in the UK, after coming into the world at a whopping 14lbs 15oz.
Cherral Mitchell, required two midwives to help her give birth to baby Alpha, who shocked the entire staff when he weighted more than one stone on the scales.
Alpha has since been affectionately nicknamed “Baby Hippo” and “Butter Bean” by other family members.
Alpha’s weight wasn’t the first surprise mum Cherral and dad Tyson had experienced in this pregnancy the parents were using contraception when the baby was conceived.
Tyson, who is an electrical engineer and mum Cherral have three more children but Tyson was the biggest baby of their's by some distance.
Cherral, told Mirror Online : “We didn’t think he was going to be that big.
“Everyone kept laughing when his head came out. My husband Tyson was like ‘oh my God he’s chunky’.
“There were two nurses pulling - one was trying to push him down to get him out.
“The nurses said it had to be the biggest baby and were on their phones Googling.
“He’s a bit of a pumpkin baby with it being so close to Halloween.”
Alpha, who was born on Thursday, is believed to be the UK’s third-biggest baby.
The current record-holder is Guy Carr and was born weighing 5lb 8oz in 1992.
The second biggest is 15lb 7oz George King, who was born in Gloucester in 2013.
Doctors have put Alpha’s weight down to a sweet tooth as they believe he was snacking on Cherral’s sugary fluids while in the womb.
Cherral, from Oxon, said: “They think that because I was diagnosed quite late with gestational diabetes, Alpha was in amniotic fluid that was sweeter.
“So he was drinking a lot and peeing a lot and getting a high intake of sugar.”
Alpha was estimated to be 11lb 1oz in a scan at 37 weeks but he gained three pounds before he was born a week later via cesarean section at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
Cherral, a stay-at-home mum, said: “My stomach was big but not that massive so I don’t know where he was hiding.
“I keep saying I gave birth to a baby butter bean. My uncle Jason calls him a baby hippo.”
Cherral already has a son - Lyon, three - and daughters Rogue-Angel, four, and Twyla Bay, 10 months - but said that Alpha is the biggest by a long shot.
She said: “My other children were all normal.”
Alpha is currently in NICU where he’s being monitored by neonatal nurses but is “on the mend”.
