550-Pound Woman Gives Birth
FOX News is all over the story of a 550-pound woman giving birth to a healthy baby in Russia today.
Doctors at Moscow’s Maternity Clinic Number 8 were, as the news story says, patting themselves on the back for delivering the healthy baby of a woman “whose weight would normally preclude conception,” according to the docs.
Preclude conception? What’s with that?
“The thing is that as a rule, women over 150 kilograms have such severe
hormonal irregularities they simply can’t get pregnant,” Irina Osadcheva, the deputy head of the clinic, explained.
Huh. The 34-year-old first-time mom, who is identified only as Nonna M., had a boy weighing 4.4 pounds after a five-hour induced labor. Good for her! Congrats to Nonna M.
And congrats to this mom!
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Sue, I laughed.
This type of situation may have been unusual in Russia but in the US recently pregnant women weighing in excess of 450lbs aren
I tend to ignore comments like Sue’s. I teach my kids that if they can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all. That’s my approach to Sue.
OK. Point taken. Sue’s comment was really the only mean one…bbbmom’s comment; I don’t know how to categorize it. Jerkiness couched in (maybe) fake concern? Whatever.
What’s with the PC police stuff though? If Sue can make fat jokes, it’s perfectly reasonable to call her on it, isn’t it? I realize that sainthood is not automatic (or even desirable) for parents, but it seems to me that cheap, hurtful shots (though removed from the target and in a private/adult sphere)are kind of…distasteful. I am, however, in the throes of brand-spanking new parenthood (one month today) so maybe I’ll think differently once I’ve got more time under my belt. I hope not, though. Fat jokes are shitty.
looks kinda like this sue http://anythinghollywood.com/?attachment_id=37541
And yet no one took offense at the photo posted with the article
I got so distracted by the comments that I forgot to ask… What is the sculpture depicted in the photograph above?
I would point out that often the weight is the result of hormonal and other problems and not always the other way around. Many of the assertions made about overweight women and pregnancy are based on ill-informed bias. I have PCOS, consistently low blood sugar and a family history of type 2 diabetes. For those reasons, I was monitored closely for signs of gestational diabetes. I am, by any standard, obese, but that was not the cause of my gestational diabetes. My weight, like the gestational diabetes, is largely a consequence of health conditions and family history. It is not possible for a casual observer to know the circumstances of another person’s life and insensitive to make assumptions. Please consider the pain that is inflicted (intentionally or not) every time weight is considered before other factors.
What a gross thing to say, Sue.
Yeah, I knew I’d take some crap for my comment. I just lack self control, I guess.
Funny, I’m thin and developed both gestational diabetes and pre-eclampsia. It’s almost enough to make you think there isn’t a direct correlation between the mother’s weight and the health of her baby.
Come now. One comment (Sue) was pretty snarky. Where do you all (most recent three comments) get off saying this place is turning into a bunch of assholes? Wow. Are you the PC police? “Everyone is beautiful, blah blah blah?” Seriously, though, if I weighed 550 pounds I think I’d be a little worried about getting pregnant. I was 150 pounds when I got pregnant and my doctor lectured me about the “dangers” of being overweight (my ideal weight, apparently, is around 130.) So. It’s not CRAZY to think this is a little off the wall.
Wow. Nice to see that this website is turning into a place where people feel free to be assholes, just like the rest of the internet.
Go parents!
@Sara: I completely agree; unkind, prejudiced (against people who are overweight and also against Russians). It’s appalling, really.
Wow, some of these comments are very unkind. Being fat doesn’t make a person less worthy of respect or compassion. Can’t we all just be happy that mom and baby are doing well? Geez.
I’m glad everyone is ok, though a four pound baby sounds a little light/malnourished. If she cared about weight, that could be a little demoralizing. I mean, it was always nice to know that eight or nine pounds of my weight gain was due to the baby!
I wonder if “preclude conception” meant they didn’t think anyone would have sex with her, but when questioned they couldn’t actually say that.
Her weight would normally preclude conception because most Russian men are too poor to afford a map and a compass.
If you ever catch “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant” on Discovery Health (they love to show that program), that is a consistent problem with a lot of the women. Many of them are obese resulting in hormonal problems that would normally leave them infertile leading to them not taking precautionary measures to prevent pregnancy (if they do not want kids) and quite surprised when they go into labor.
She’s lucky she didn’t develop gestational diabetes (usually results in BIG babies along with the health problems for her) or preeclampsia.