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    Minnesota couple welcomes 15 lb, 6 oz. baby

    ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Some numbers are just too big to register. It was like that when Wendi Dolton heard a doctor say the number '15.6' moments after giving birth to her third child on Monday. She thought at first he was referring to the time.

    "And he goes, 'weight.'

    "And I said, 'wait for what?'"

    "And he goes, 'no, the weight."

    Wendi's next response: "Are you kidding me?"

    No kidding. Wendi had given birth to a baby boy weighing 15 pounds, 6 ounces.

    "There's been doctors and nurses that have been around here a fair amount of years and they've never seen one that big," says Mike Dolton, Wendi's husband.

    The Racine, Minnesota parents named their baby boy Axel LaVerne.

    "I had some clothes ready for him, and yes, he's outgrown them already," says Wendi. "And my family bought clothes and they won't fit him."

    For now Axel is in neonatal intensive care at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester. His parents say he's being monitored for a heart condition associated with premature birth. That's right. Alex arrived by caesarean section, three weeks early.

    Axel barely fit in a preemie isolette. "He lays up there by these little two pounders and one pounders and three pounders and here he takes up the whole cart," explains Wendi. "And they actually moved him to a bigger bed. He's a big boy, he's broad. He's going to be my little linebacker I think."

    The Doltons say Axel is doing well and they hope to bring him home within a few days.

    Wendi is used to big babies. Her first daughter Naomi, 9, weighed more than nine pounds at birth. Sister Emma, 6, weighed more than 11 pounds, earning her the nickname "Pork Chop."

    The Dolton's Thanksgiving baby now has a nickname too. "Butterball, yep, our butterball," laughs his mom. "Big cheeks, big chubby cheeks and no neck."

    A nine pound baby, followed by an eleven pound baby and now a 15 pound baby. Do we hear 20?

    "We're done," say Axel's parents almost in unison. Adds Wendi for emphasis, "I'm not doing this again."

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    Wow, if he was born 3 weeks early and still weighed 15.6 pds., I wonder what he would have weighed at full term.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Julie View Post
    Wow, if he was born 3 weeks early and still weighed 15.6 pds., I wonder what he would have weighed at full term.
    He probably would have climbed out himself and smacked the doctor.
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    Thank gosh he was born by caesarean! Otherwise...OUCH!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Southie View Post
    Thank gosh he was born by caesarean! Otherwise...OUCH!
    You aint kiddin !

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    ^ Ah...it's so nice to lurk here and slide right underneath Julie when she posts. )

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    Quote Originally Posted by YellowFever View Post
    ^ Ah...it's so nice to lurk here and slide right underneath Julie when she posts. )
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    Congrats to the parents, and good luck with the painful and costly years to come keeping the lad well fed !
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    Quote Originally Posted by Southie View Post
    Thank gosh he was born by caesarean! Otherwise...OUCH!
    Are there enough stitches in the world?

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    Quote Originally Posted by TopHatter View Post
    Are there enough stitches in the world?
    I doubt it! Sounds more like plastic surgery would be required! This is her third...I'd hate to think if she does have a fourth how big that baby would be! Although she did say
    I'm not doing this again.
    I don't blame her! I'm sure she was thinking..."Thank God for C-Sections!"
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    Isn't the last month a gain of approx a pound per week? Wait......at a pound per week and she was 3 weeks early that would be.....OMG 18.6 pounds of baby full term? Someone who has actually had children would be better off knowing this sort of thing of course.....
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    Ripe material for another of Jay Leno's "how-fat-is-America-getting" jokes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by indus creed View Post
    Ripe material for another of Jay Leno's "how-fat-is-America-getting" jokes.
    Jay Leno needs to find new material other than fat jokes, cuz he's a fat lil' dumplin himself. :P

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    Quote Originally Posted by Julie View Post
    Jay Leno needs to find new material other than fat jokes, cuz he's a fat lil' dumplin himself. :P
    True, that would be like Herr Davekins making fun of Shamu's age, oh wait ..
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    Quote Originally Posted by Knaur Amarsh View Post
    True, that would be like Herr Davekins making fun of Shamu's age, oh wait ..
    Hah!Yet another case of "the pot calling the kettle black".
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