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A new mum has left social media users gobsmacked after she revealed how much her son weighed when he was born, a year later she says she “still feels the pain from carrying him around.”
After giving birth in 2021 Erika Weber posted to Tiktok saying that doctors measured her as 42 weeks pregnant when she was still only at 38 weeks. The size of her baby boy was a month ahead of what it should have been. She then gave birth to a baby who was a staggering 12lbs 6oz when he was born.
In a recent TikTok’s Erika posted to her 10.4k followers that she is sure her son, now two, is a “born D1 footballer, " meaning he will make the top competitive division in college football. To give her fans an insight into how her son is doing now, the mum of two, captioned another video: "He's still a big boy even at the age of two!"
The baby was a staggering 12lbs 6oz when he was born (weberboymomma2/TikTok)Erika Weber went originally went viral after she responded to a video from a woman on TikTok who asked other users to share their stories about birthing the "biggest babies", as she shared the shocking news that her son weighed a staggering 12lbs 6oz when he was born.
The mum-of-two, from the US, explained she had given birth via C-section on the advice of her doctor, after it was determined at her 37-week ultrasound that her baby was currently over 9lbs and still growing. But what she didn't expect was for her son to arrive another 3lbs heavier.
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At the time of her breaking the news of her c-section, some commenters told her the new born looked big enough to be paying taxes just a few days after coming into the world.Her video - which was shared to her @weberboymomma2 account and has been viewed over 8 million times since it was posted in 2021 - Erika said: "So everyone keeps tagging me in this and telling me I should do this.
"At 37 weeks I went in for an ultrasound and my son was weighing in at 9lb 15oz so we scheduled for a C-section. I ended up being put into labour the day before the C-section and I still went with a C-section because the doctor highly advised that, and...I had a baby that was 12lbs 6oz and he came out of the hospital wearing three-month clothing, size one diapers, and now he's six months old and wearing 18-month clothing
She now posts videos showing her sons growing up and how she cares for herself as a mum. A lot of her videos show her night time routines or her sons playing sport. In one caption of a video playing a game with her children she wrote “chaos but I love them”.