Nearly 1,000 babies in Leeds weighed at least four kilograms at birth - the same as 8.8 pounds.
New figures from NHS Digital reveal a total of 9,425 'finished delivery episodes' were recorded across the city in 2017/18. A finished delivery episode is where at least one baby is born - so twins or triplets may be excluded from the figures.
Babies’ birth weights are still measured in metrics. The average weight of a baby girl is 3.3kg and the average weight of a baby boy is
3.4kg.
The figures show that 920 babies born in Leeds weighed more than 4kg - roughly the same as 8.8 pounds.
It means one in every 10 babies born across the city weighed 8.8 pounds or more.
There were 2,635 babies who weighed between 3.5kg and 3.9kg - or between 7.7 and 8.8 pounds. A further 3,390 babies between the weight of 3.0kg and 3.4kg were also delivered in 2017/18. There were 2,380 babies who weighed less than 3.0kg - the equivalent of 6.6 pounds.
The remaining 100 babies born across Leeds did not have a weight recorded.
Across all hospitals in England there were 626,203 finished delivery episodes in 2017/18.
Some 59,678 babies were born weighing 8.8 pounds or more - a rate of one in every 10.
NHS Digital has rounded the figures in individual hospitals to the nearest five.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust figures
Total finished delivery episodes |
9,425 |
Babies born weighing less than 3kg |
2,380 |
Babies born weighing between 3kg and 3.5kg |
3,390 |
Babies born weighing between 3.5kg and 4kg |
2,635 |
Babies born weighing more than 4kg |
920 |
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