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  1. Since it is a well-known fact that men are wimps when it comes to pain and childbirth, I am posting this article here, for all you tough dames. It makes my eyes water reading about it...

    Woman Delivers 14 Pound Baby ‘Naturally’

    By Maria Vultaggio on January 31st, 2012

    Whoa baby, lately it seems women have been giving birth to some big babies! Just a few months ago a woman from Texas gave birth to a sixteen-pound infant.

    Expectedly, these women have been birthing their children with pain medication to make the labor easier.

    However, a woman from Iowa gave birth to a baby who almost weighed fourteen pounds, not to mention she did it all “naturally.”

    “We just wanted to avoid any unnecessary procedures,” Kendall Stewardson said today on “Good Morning America.” “We decided to fight for that (a natural delivery) because we wanted to try to lower my chances of getting a C-section.

    Baby Asher Stewardson made parents Kendall and Joshua Stewardson proud as he joined their family as their second child. The couple’s first baby, Judah, was born at twelve pounds so they were not too surprised with what Asher weighed at his birth.

    “We were just really blessed that God enabled my body to be able to do this well,” Stewardson explained on “GMA,” “It went really fast. Six hours is something no one can complain about.”

    After the six-hour labor, Stewardson’s second child measured in at 23 1/2 inches long, weighing 13 pounds 12 ounces.

    As it is healthier for the child, many women are attempting to give birth without the facilitation of drugs.

    “We had decided to research all of our options before we had Judah just to see what would happen to me,” Stewardson said. “We started to research doing it naturally. There are a lot of options for women out there, but this seemed like the best thing for me and Judah, and then Asher.”

    Stewardson went on to explain that when a woman gives birth to a bigger baby, there’s less baby weight to lose after the pregnancy; another benefit of having a child naturally!

    Both mother and child are doing well.

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    Big baby: Asher Stewardson was born Jan. 26, 2012, weighing 13 pounds, 13 ounces.

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    Big surprise: An Iowa woman delivered a 13 pound baby Thursday without painkillers or a cesarean section

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    Not the first: The newborn named Asher is just one pound more than the birth weight of his older brother (shown in the arms of his father left) who was 12 pounds

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    Record: Asher's weight of 13 pounds took the record for the Mercy Medical Hospital but was just short of the state's record of 14 pounds in 1980

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    Healthy: Medical staff say that Asher is completely healthy despite his size and his nine-day delay in birth

    Watch video here:

    http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz1lGggJqvC

    I'm glad the baby's healthy. Now, let's get Mom healthy. She doesn't seem so.

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