印度南部诞生一名女婴重达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，印度一名妇女产下一个15磅（折合6.8公斤）重的女婴，据医生表示，这很可能是印度这个国家有史以来体重最重的婴儿。

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

这名女婴的体重相当于6个月大的宝宝。而印度新生儿的体重通常介于2.5至3.5公斤之间。

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岁的产妇南迪尼是在南部卡纳塔克邦的一家医院经剖腹手术诞下的这名女婴。医生表示，他们正在对这名女婴体重为何如此惊人进行测试。

"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.

哈森地区卫生官员凡卡德希在接受BBC印度采访时说道：“她是否是全球最大的婴儿我不知道，但我敢说，她是印度最大的婴儿。”

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.

相关医生表示，这名女婴不仅体重过人，个头也很高。负责照顾南迪尼和宝宝的医生库玛说道：“这名婴儿身长62公分（24.4英寸），而一般印度新生儿身长仅为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.

假如母亲患有糖尿病，新生儿体重通常会超标，因此医生做的第一件事便是确认南迪尼是否罹患糖尿病，令人意外的是，她并没有这类疾病。

"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."

库玛说：“我们对南迪尼进行了超音波和血液检测，但未发现任何异常。我们已经发送样本做先天性代谢缺陷的检测，48小时后就能出结果。”

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).

截止目前为止，印度最重的新生儿是2015年11月出生在Uttar Pradesh irdous Khatun的一名男孩，出生时体重为14.77磅（6.7公斤）。而世界最重的新生儿是于1955年9月在意大利阿韦萨卡尔梅利纳出生的，体重约为22.8磅（10.2公斤）。