Florida mom stunned after delivering record-breaking baby nicknamed ‘Sumo’

A Florida mom stunned the maternity ward after she delivered a record-breaking baby boy weighing twice the size of an average newborn.

Daniella Hines, 40, welcomed her son Annan on September 3 at St. Joseph’s Hospital-South in Riverview.

Nurses on the ward were left astonished after they weighed him at a whopping 13 pounds, 15 ounces, breaking a hospital record.

‘He was the talk of the maternity ward,’ Hines told TODAY. 

At just eight days old, Annan was already wearing clothes designed for a nine-month-old baby and has earned the nickname ‘Sumo’. 

Annan is Hines and her husband Andre Sr.’s second child, with their first Andre Jr. born weighing 12 pounds, 11 ounces.

But Hines was still shocked when her newborn was handed to her, as she recalled how different the birth of her second felt. 

‘I remember thinking, “What are they pulling out of me? What is going on here?” I felt so much pressure,’ she told the outlet.

Her confusion subsided when she saw Annan for the first time, and she added: ‘He was so big. I was like, “Whose baby is this? He came out of me?”‘ 

Hines stands at six feet and while her husband is six foot two inches tall. She believes their height played a large role in determining their children’s size.

Not-so-little baby Annan became the talk to the ward, as hospital staff believed him to be the biggest baby delivered in their ward. 

‘Everybody starts coming in because it’s not every day you see an almost 14 pound baby pop out,’ Hines continued. ‘He was like a little celebrity.’

St. Joseph’s Hospital-South called Annan a ‘big miracle,’.

‘Annan is believed to be among the biggest babies, if not the biggest baby, ever born at St. Joseph’s Hospital-South,’ staff wrote on Facebook.

Hines responded on the post with great thanks for ‘such great hospitality,’ and added that Annan’s ‘weight came as a surprise to us as well’.

‘He is such a big beautiful blessing,’ she wrote, adding with laughter to the comment section, ‘yes, I had a C-Section.’ 

Hines’ husband, Andre Sr., shared on social media that their baby boy had already donned the nickname ‘Sumo.’

On Monday, Hines wrote: ‘It’s been almost a week since our little or should I say BIG bundle of joy made his debut into this world.’

‘Who knew he would be a baby celebrity,’ she continued. 

Annan was doing ‘fine’ after his first week at home, and Hines was continuing her recovery from her second C-Section birth ‘due to high risk and weight’.

‘I’m still in awe, he was estimated to weight around 11lbs(which is still big) and here we are,’ she wrote. 

‘Now the focus is on making sure he stays healthy and taking back all these small clothes and size newborn/number 1 diapers that won’t fit.’

On Thursday, Hines shared more pictures of baby Annan who was resting peacefully with a little smile on his face. 

‘We are so in love with the newest addition to the family,’ she wrote. 

‘Annan is eight days old and wearing 6-9 months in clothes and size 2 diapers! Look at those squishy cheeks and juicy rolls!’

Annan’s mother told TODAY that her newborn has been ‘really chill,’ except for when it’s time to eat. 

‘We didn’t expect such a big blessing, but it’s just more to love!’ Hines said. ‘I can’t wait to show him when he gets older: “Look you were in the news!”‘ 

In March, a mother in Alabama gave birth to a baby girl that was the size of a three month old, weighing in at 13 pounds, four ounces. 

In 2019, a New York woman named Joy Buckley gave birth to a baby girl who weighed in at 15 pounds, five ounces.

‘I felt like I had been hit by two tractor-trailers simultaneously,’ she told the Washington Post the day after the birth.

Currently, the Guinness World record for the heaviest baby born to a healthy mother belonged to a baby boy born in Aversa, Italy in September 1955.

The boy weighed in at a whopping 22 pounds, eight ounces.