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Monday, December 29, 2008

14 pound baby needed two

LAGUNA HILLS – It took two doctors to lift the baby up during the C-section.
The gasps in the delivery came quickly.
"Oh my God!" a nurse said.
For a second, mother Sara Sault thought something might be wrong.
Nope.
"He's here! He's big!" someone else said.
Got that right.
Father Richard Sault whispered the details in his wife's ear:
"Fourteen pounds, 2 ounces."
Just seconds after his birth, Richard Walker Sault — 21½ inches long — already had outgrown his infant car seat.
He weighed as much as a medium-sized holiday turkey — fitting for a kid born on Dec. 23.
"We thought our first baby was a miracle, and now we have this little guy," said Richard Sault, immediately correcting himself.
"Guess he's not so little."
Richard Sault Jr. is the largest baby ever delivered at Saddleback Memorial Medical Center in Laguna Hills — most likely in Orange County, according to veteran Saddleback doctors and an informal check of other major county hospitals.
Labor and delivery nurses at UCI Medical Center in Orange can't recall a baby ever being born there weighing more than 13 pounds.
"That's a big baby," said Marty Wright, department manager of labor and delivery at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange. During her 21 years at the hospital, about 102,000 babies have been delivered.
"I remember one that was nearly 12 pounds, but 14.2? Never!" she said. more

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