New York’s heaviest baby in history: 15.5-pound baby born in Elmira

The stork hauling her must have been on steroids.

A baby girl weighing more than 15 pounds tipped the scales as the largest ever born at an upstate hospital, sources said Monday.

“I knew she was gonna be big, but I didn’t anticipate no 15-pound baby,” her exhausted mama, Joy Buckley, of Corning, told WETM. Buckley and her husband, Norman, welcomed 23.2-inch, 15 pound-5-ounce Harper Buckley into the world at Arnot Odgen Medical Center in Elmira last week.

The burbling behemoth is the hospital’s heaviest on record, officials said — more than twice the size of an average newborn, and on par with some 6-month-olds.

She’s bigger than India’s heaviest-ever newborn, a 15-pounder born three years ago, along with record-setting infants in Texas and California.

Officials from the New York Heath Department, which tracks newborn baby weight data, were looking into whether baby Buckley is the state’s biggest ever, a spokeswoman told The Post. There were no reports immediately available of a bigger baby being born in the Empire State.

The big bundle of joy was being monitored for oxygen and sugar levels at the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit Monday morning, the local TV station reported.

For Buckley, who also has a toddler and an adopted child, waiting days to take home her baby has been tough.

“It’s definitely hard,” she said. “But I know that she won’t be [in intensive care] forever — she’ll be coming home soon.”

On Tuesday, Joy Buckley posted a Facebook announcement along with a photo of her adorable new daughter.

Source: nypost.com

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