“They struggled to get him out”: Woman gives birth to GIANT 14-pound baby (PHOTO)

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A Utah woman gave birth to a baby boy who weighed 14 pounds even in May.

Now that’s a big baby.

When Sara Brandon gave birth to Joel Brandon Jr., at Timpanogos Regional Hospital in Orem, Utah, on May 9, he weighed a whopping 14 pounds. “J.J.,” as his family calls him, was delivered by cesarean section with the help of two obstetricians.

“I had to have two deliver him instead of one, because they knew he was going to be big,” Brandon told ABCNews.com. “They struggled to get him out.”

She told ABCNews.com that his estimated weight at her final ultrasound was closer to 11 pounds, so she was shocked by his size.

Although J.J. had to spend the first 10 days of his life in the neonatal intensive care unit because of lung problems, he has been happy and healthy since leaving the hospital.

At his four month checkup, J.J. weighed 23 pounds, his mom told KSL.

“(The doctor) said he’ll be a normal, healthy boy as he grows; he’ll probably just be a big, tall guy but he’ll probably slim down as he gets into his toddler years,” she told the station.

Brandon also has adorable 3-year-old twin girls, and they were 4 pound each at birth. Now, all three of her children wear the same size diapers.

“He’s very calm, content and giggly. He sits with his sisters all day. He only cries if he’s hungry or tired,” she told ABCNews.com. “He’s an awesome little guy, or big guy.”

An expert told ABCNews.com that baby J.J.’s size is likely due to Brandon’s type 1 diabetes.

“An interesting effect of insulin, if it’s not taken in a sufficient amount, the glucose remains high, and the baby’s glucose starts to rise,” Dr. Robert Barbieri, chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, said. “It’s like giving the baby fertilizer and it grows very large.”

Babies as large as J.J. are rare because doctors usually induce labor if it looks like the little one isn’t so little, Barbieri said. He estimated that the odds of giving birth to a 14-pound baby are 1 in 100,000.

Hefty newborns from all over the world have been grabbing headlines recently. In July, a German woman gave birth to a 13.47-pound baby girl, delivering vaginally rather than via caesarian section. In August, a woman in Spain gave birth to the country’s biggest naturally born baby, a little girl weighing 13 pounds, 7 ounces.

Meanwhile, on the other end of the spectrum, premature birth rates in the U.S. have dropped to a 15-year low, according to the March of Dimes.

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