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Baby boomer weighs in at whopping 12lb 7oz

As they lie side by side, it's hard to believe these new arrivals were born just a day apart.

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Not-so-little Raela-Jae tipped the scales at 12lb 7oz giving her mother Racheal Lloyd a shock when she welcomed her daughter into the world.

Doctors at Walsall Manor Hospital said Raela-Jae was one of the biggest babies they had seen in years.

Miss Lloyd took a photo of her daughter lying next to a much smaller baby born at the hospital, Orla Moor, and it's clear to see the incredible size difference.

Miss Lloyd is now having to buy a whole new wardrobe for her daughter - as newborn clothes are too small.

Raela-Jae is already filling out size 3-6 month babygrows, so the piles of clothes her mother was given at a baby shower will be given away. And she has smashed the 7lb 8oz average weight of a newborn baby.

She was born by caesarean section on Monday at 2.37pm after Miss Lloyd was induced on Saturday as she was 12 days overdue.

Though Miss Lloyd, who is a support worker from The Butts in Walsall, had been warned during scans that the baby would be big, she says she had 'no idea she would be this big'.

She added: "When she was born she was screaming her head off and when the midwives and doctors took her to the scales, they were smiling and they then told me how heavy she was.

"I can't believe I have been carrying that weight around with me all this time. I had no idea.

"She's doing really well now though and we're really happy."

Miss Lloyd was expecting to be discharged from hospital today after recovering from her operation.

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