Amy Smit, a 27-year-old woman in the United Kingdom, was left amazed after giving birth to a baby boy who weighed close to 6kgs and measured 2-feet tall. According to reports, the newborn, named Zagrys, was so big that he wouldn’t fit on the weighing scales and needed “two people to lift him out.”

On average, newborn babies are 20 inches (1.5 feet) in length, ranging from 18 to 22 inches, and weigh around 7.5 pounds (3.4 kgs), ranging between 5.5 to 10 pounds. Amy and her husband Zac were taken by surprise by the size of their baby, who was born on March 25.

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Amy, who is now a mum-of-two, said that it took two people to lift Zagrys out of her during the Caesarean section because of his size and weight. Incredibly, he was almost twice the size of an average newborn.

“He was so big that it took two people to lift him out. There were all these really small ladies around me, and I heard one of them saying, ‘I need some help, he’s enormous. When they lifted him above the screen for me and Zac to see, my first words were ‘bloody hell’,” said Amy, The Bucks Herald reported. 

Amy said she was expecting a tall baby as the scans had shown he was quite long. But she and her husband were stunned on the day of birth. “We knew he was going to be a tall baby because all the scans showed he was quite long, and both Zac and I are around the six-foot mark. But we had no idea he would be that big,” she said.

“He didn’t even fit on the scales when they went to weigh him, he was too long and wide. They had to make a makeshift plank thing to balance him on them.”

The baby didn’t even fit into the large clothes that Amy and Zac had purchased in anticipation. She had purchased clothes for kids aged up to three months. But they weren’t long enough to fully cover Zagrys.