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528-pound Woman Birth Child - Psychology, Special Needs, Health - Posted: 18th Feb, 2010 - 9:59pm
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528-pound Woman Gives Birth To First Child
I'm surprised she was able to go through with a pregnancy taking into consideration her condition. Hopefully, the baby will be healthy in the long term.
QUOTE BUCHAREST, Romania - A 25-year-old woman weighing 528 pounds gave birth to her first baby on Thursday at a hospital equipped to treat obese people.
"The baby is the fruit of the love between me and my future husband who is slimmer, weighing just 154 pounds," said Victoria Lacatus.
"I wanted this child with all my heart, whatever the sacrifice," the Adevarul newspaper quoted her as saying.
The healthy baby girl, born by Caesarean section, weighed 6.4 pounds, said Bogdan Popescu, a spokesman at Bucharest University Emergency Hospital.
Lacatus was admitted there from her village in southern Romania because the local hospital did not have any beds that could bear her weight, officials said. In Bucharest, three teams of ambulance staff and firefighters were needed to carry her into the hospital.
Popescu said Lacatus was being carefully monitored because she suffers from a thyroid problem and doctors said post-surgery complications could develop because of her morbid obesity.
Dr. Manny Alvarez, managing health editor of FoxNews.com, said pregnancy risks in obese women include high blood pressure, deep vein thrombosis, miscarriage, and respiratory problems....
"The baby is the fruit of the love between me and my future husband who is slimmer, weighing just 154 pounds," said Victoria Lacatus.
"I wanted this child with all my heart, whatever the sacrifice," the Adevarul newspaper quoted her as saying.
The healthy baby girl, born by Caesarean section, weighed 6.4 pounds, said Bogdan Popescu, a spokesman at Bucharest University Emergency Hospital.
Lacatus was admitted there from her village in southern Romania because the local hospital did not have any beds that could bear her weight, officials said. In Bucharest, three teams of ambulance staff and firefighters were needed to carry her into the hospital.
Popescu said Lacatus was being carefully monitored because she suffers from a thyroid problem and doctors said post-surgery complications could develop because of her morbid obesity.
Dr. Manny Alvarez, managing health editor of FoxNews.com, said pregnancy risks in obese women include high blood pressure, deep vein thrombosis, miscarriage, and respiratory problems....
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