A 528-pound woman gave birth in Romania to a 6-pound, 4-ounce baby yesterday at a hospital for the obese. 25-year-old Victoria Lacatus gave birth to a healthy baby girl via caesarian section.
Lacatus is the largest known woman to ever give birth in Romania. A spokesperson for the hospital where the delivery took place, Bucharest University Emergency Hospital, stated that Lacatus was transported from the hospital in her village in Southern Romania to Bucharest because the facility did not have a bed to accommodate the woman’s weight. Upon arrival at Bucharest University Emergency Hospital, three teams consisting of ambulance staff and firefighters were needed to carry the woman into the hospital.
Florin Costandache, who helped with the operation, stated that one of the main challenges came about because she needed four times the anesthetic a normal person needs.
Given Lacatus’ weight and problems with her thyroid, she is being heavily monitored for post-surgery complications such as diabetes, bleeding, blood clots and infection.
There is one other case of a heavier woman giving birth to triplets in Britain in 2008, that woman was 560-pound Leanne Salt.
The healthy little baby girl is the first child for Lacatus who is engaged to be married later this year to 36-year-old fiancé, Costica Lacatus.

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