Victoria’s biggest baby? Newborn boy tips scales at 6kg

AT a whopping 6kgs, you’d think ‘little’ Brian is Victoria’s biggest baby. But one Herald Sun reader has told of her own mammoth baby tale.

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THE look of surprise on Natashia Corrigan’s face says it all.

She’d been through it three times before, but even she wasn’t expecting her fourth baby to quite possibly take out the title of Victoria’s biggest baby, tipping the scales at 6kg.

By the time of her 36 week scan, Ms Corrigan knew to expect a big bundle of joy.

Her unborn son was already a kilo heavier than what her youngest daughter weighed at birth.

But just how big her son would be even surprised her doctors and midwives.

Baby Brian Liddle Junior surprised even mum, Natashia Corrigan. Picture: David Caird

Baby Brian Liddle Junior with Liam Milidoni, also born on Tuesday, but weighing only 2.8kg. Picture: David Caird

With an extra four weeks and five days of growing to do, baby Brian Liddle Junior arrived into the world on Tuesday morning weighing 6kg, or 13.22 pounds.

He is the heaviest baby ever born at the Mercy Hospital for Women in Heidelberg.

At double the average birth weight, and stretching 57cm long, he is one of the largest babies born in the country.

“I’m still finding it hard to believe," Ms Corrigan said.

“But by the end of term, I was struggling just turning in bed and walking up the stairs at home.”

Baby Brian tips the scales. Picture: David Caird

The mother-of-four from Preston said with her partner Brian Liddle and sister Kurriki Ellis by her side, she powered through a seven natural labour — supported with pain relief gas — to give birth at 9.44am.

“They kept me strong and calm when it seemed like chaos was happening around me,” she said.

“Because he was so big it was a bit hard to get him out, and they had to get a few extra staff members to come in and help.

“I’ve always wished for a little fat baby. This is the first pregnancy I’ve got to experience a natural labour, the longest I’ve ever been pregnant and I’ve got the fat little man that I wanted.”

Baby Brian may seem like the biggest baby in Victoria, but one Herald Sun reader got in touch to tell of her own giant baby tale.

When Tricia Sonneveld’s son Archer was born at Frankston Hospital in 2014, he weighed in at an astonishing 6.134kg.

Baby Archer on the scales when he was born.

Archer, who was born by caesarean shocked him mum and the nurses involved.

“When we has born the nurses held him up like he was Simba,” Ms Sonneveld said.

“He as immediately too big for all the Hospital’s charts and graphs, but he’s a happy and healthy boy now.”

With her son born premature, Ms Sonneveld could only imagine how big her son would have been if he was carried to term.

“I’m glad he didn’t go to 40 weeks,” she said.

Tricia was extremely complimentary to fellow mum Natashia.

“Mine was a caesarean, for her to naturally give birth, that’s just incredible.”

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