Valentino Francisco Corsetti is just a few days old and he’s already breaking records. The newborn is one of the largest babies ever to be born in northern California, according to the Sacramento Bee, weighing in at a whopping 13 pounds and 11 ounces.
The happy, healthy boy was born naturally on the morning of April 28 at Sutter Davis Hospital, about 20 miles outside of Sacramento. Proud parents Kelly and Scott Corsetti said they couldn’t believe their eyes when their 22-inch bundle of joy was placed on the scale for the first time after a two-hour labor.
“My husband walked over to the scale with (my sister-in-law) and I just heard both of them laughing and going, ‘Oh my gosh, it can’t be. He can’t be that big,’” Kelly Corsetti told the paper. “They turned around and told me how much he weighed. I was shocked.”
Doctors were shocked, too. Dr. William Gilbert, the regional medical director of Women’s Services for the hospital, told the newspaper that baby Valentino is the second-biggest baby he has seen in his 30 years as a doctor. The baby, born five days after his due date, was in the 99th percentile for national birth weights. The average newborn weighs between 6 and 9 pounds.
“We are pretty ecstatic,” Kelly Corsetti told ABC 10. “We feel very blessed more than anything.”
The couple has two other children: Giovanni, a 17-month-old boy, and Taylor, a 2-year-old girl. The Corsettis told ABC 10 that Giovanni weighed nearly 11 pounds when he was born, and Taylor was closer to the average at a little over 8 pounds.
