A woman from Melbourne, Australia, stunned doctors when she gave birth to a nearly 14-pound baby boy without an epidural.
Natashia Corrigan lives in Australia with her husband, Brian, and their two daughters. The family of three recently welcomed Brian Jr. this January in a record-breaking birth. Brian Jr. was born at 40 weeks and five days and weighed in at 13.5 pounds, making him the largest baby ever born at Mercy Hospital in Melbourne.
“Brian & I are overwhelmed with all of the visits, calls, messages, posts, comments and tags of well wishes from literally everyone,” Corrigan wrote on Facebook. “It’s hard to get our minds around such a whirlwind of a day. I never dreamed we’d get so much love for our BIG baby boy and family.”
Having such a large baby is out of the norm for Corrigan. Her daughters only weighed in at 8 pounds 4 ounces and 7 pounds 12 ounces each.
“I dreamed of a little fat baby,” Corrigan told 7 News First. “I’ve always wanted a little fat baby, and I’ve got a big one!”
The mom of three did have a hint that her little boy would be bigger than his sisters when the doctor told her Brian Jr. weight 9 pounds in utero at the 36-week mark. But she expected her new child to join the world at about 11 pounds at the absolute most.
Still, being the amazing mom that Corrigan is, she delivered Brian Jr. almost 100 percent naturally. She didn’t need a C-section, skipped the epidural and only had a small amount of laughing gas during the delivery.
Considering most babies weigh about 7.5 pounds at birth, Corrigan’s resilience and Brian Jr.’s birth is truly extraordinary.
The mom told reporters that her trick for giving birth was “the power of positive thinking during birth.” She added, “be positive, breath deep.”
