Is this the heaviest baby born in Australia?

The heaviest baby to have ever been delivered at Queensland’s Rockhampton Hospital arrived on Monday.

Maisie Lily Macdonald, weighed in at a whopping 6.02kg, surprising parents, Mason Macdonald and Makaela Kirkby, by arriving a week early.

She joins 17-month-old sister, Aubree Rose, who was also a heavy infant, born weighing just over 5kg.

Proud dad took to Facebook to share a picture of his newborn and break the exciting news, reports Daily Mail.

‘I’d like to introduce Maisie Lily Macdonald to everyone, weighing in at 13 pound 4 ounces (6.020 kilograms) claiming the record of biggest baby born at Rockhampton hospital,’ he wrote.

‘Welcome to the world and the family ya massive newborn.’

The words accompanied a photo of Maisie fresh out of the womb, with doctors proudly holding her up above the operating table.

Congratulations guys! Such a beautiful baby girl xx

Last year we shared the story of a teenager in India who gave birth to a baby girl weighing a whopping 15lbs – the heaviest girl ever born in the world. Read that story here.

There was also the Melbourne mum in shock after discovering her baby boy tipped the scales at more than six kilograms. Read that HERE.

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18 Comments

- - mom160421 said
  - 29 Oct 2017
    3:24 pm
Congratulations to the family and well done mum!

- - mom64736 said
  - 06 Oct 2017
    12:16 pm
I had an 11lb baby boy vaginally and it nearly ended up with us both dead. Big babies are really a horrible experience.

- - ella12 said
  - 26 Sep 2017
    2:34 pm
My baby was half that. Congratulations to the new family, all the best.

- - tessie said
  - 18 Sep 2017
    2:31 pm
Congratulations on your beautiful new girl.

- - mom94125 said
  - 17 Sep 2017
    8:28 pm
wow so she was too big to push out? much safer to be delivered that way though. always a blessing though

- - rovermum said
  - 11 Sep 2017
    11:03 am
Oh my. The thought of the size of this child physically hurts me. My son was just over 4kg at a week early and he was so big. I cannot imagine. I just cannot imagine. This poor woman!

- - rachel1970 said
  - 09 Sep 2017
    7:13 am
even my twins together weren’t this size and I felt huge, that is one big beautiful baby.

- - sars_angelchik said
  - 08 Sep 2017
    9:12 pm
Wow- mine weren’t even close to that! 7 pound 8 ounces, 8 pound 5 ounces.

- - mom112217 said
  - 08 Sep 2017
    9:41 am
Congratulations on your beautiful baby girl!

- - nadine_hill said
  - 08 Sep 2017
    8:27 am
Oh my! No one in our family can beat that! Glad mum and bub are doing well!

- - Ellen said
  - 08 Sep 2017
    8:03 am
Oh my what a big babies. Well done mummy for carrying that with you during pregnancy !
Mine were 3 kg and under, my eldest only 880 grams.

- - mom206279 said
  - 08 Sep 2017
    7:24 am
Yikes! Makes my 4kg bub look like nothing!

- - taynik46 said
  - 08 Sep 2017
    7:17 am
my goodness that mother is amazing! – I struggled carrying the extra weight of 6pound babies! – congratulations to them

- - mom63542 said
  - 07 Sep 2017
    10:11 pm
I saw this and thought wow how amazing are women, I cant imagine how she could carry this size baby. I had one that was 6 pound then one that was 8pound 8 and I found that hard. They will need alot of new bigger clothes for her. Glad she is healthy.

- - pottsy said
  - 07 Sep 2017
    9:23 pm
My grandfather was born in 1899 and is reported to have been a stone at birth (6.35kg). There is no birth certificate so it can’t be proven …. but his parents registered his middle name as ‘Stone’.