印度南部誕生一名女嬰重達15磅

An Indian woman has given birth to a 15lb (6.8kg) baby girl that doctors say could possibly be the heaviest child ever born in the country.

日前，印度一名婦女產下一個15磅（摺合6.8公斤）重的女嬰，據醫生表示，這很可能是印度這個國家有史以來體重最重的嬰兒。

The infant weighs the same as a six-month-old in a country where new-born babies normally weigh 2.5-3.5kg.

這名女嬰的體重相當於6個月大的寶寶。而印度新生兒的體重通常介於2.5至3.5公斤之間。

Her mother Nandini, 20, gave birth by a Caesarean section, at a hospital in the southern state of Karnataka. Doctors said they were conducting tests to find out the reason why the baby was so heavy.

20歲的產婦南迪尼是在南部卡納塔克邦的一家醫院經剖腹手術誕下的這名女嬰。醫生表示，他們正在對這名女嬰體重爲何如此驚人進行測試。

"It is the biggest baby in India, I can say. Whether it is the biggest in the world, I cannot say right now," Dr Venkatesh R, district health official in Hassan district, told BBC Hindi's Imran Qureshi.

哈森地區衛生官員凡卡德希在接受BBC印度採訪時說道：“她是否是全球最大的嬰兒我不知道，但我敢說，她是印度最大的嬰兒。”

The baby is not just heavy, she is also very tall, doctors said. "The baby's height is 62cm (24.4in) as against the normal Indian baby's height of 50cm," said Dr SR Kumar, who is looking after Nandini and her baby.

相關醫生表示，這名女嬰不僅體重過人，個頭也很高。負責照顧南迪尼和寶寶的醫生庫瑪說道：“這名嬰兒身長62公分（24.4英寸），而一般印度新生兒身長僅爲50公分。”

Since overweight newborns are normal in cases where the mother is diabetic, the first thing the doctors did was to check if Nandini had diabetes, but they found to their surprise that she had had no such complaints.

假如母親患有糖尿病，新生兒體重通常會超標，因此醫生做的第一件事便是確認南迪尼是否罹患糖尿病，令人意外的是，她並沒有這類疾病。

"We have done an ultrasound and conducted blood tests on Nandini, but we didn't find any abnormality," Dr Kumar said. "We have sent the samples for a test called an inborn error of metabolism. We should get the result after 48 hours."

庫瑪說：“我們對南迪尼進行了超音波和血液檢測，但未發現任何異常。我們已經發送樣本做先天性代謝缺陷的檢測，48小時後就能出結果。”

The record so far for the heaviest Indian baby is held by a boy, born to Firdous Khatun of Uttar Pradesh in November 2015. The baby boy weighed 14.77lb (6.7kg). The world record for the heaviest baby was for a boy born to Carmelina Fedele in Aversa, Italy, in September 1955. The boy weighed 22lb 8oz (10.2 kg).

截止目前爲止，印度最重的新生兒是2015年11月出生在Uttar Pradesh irdous Khatun的一名男孩，出生時體重爲14.77磅（6.7公斤）。而世界最重的新生兒是於1955年9月在意大利阿韋薩卡爾梅利納出生的，體重約爲22.8磅（10.2公斤）。