{"id":8422,"date":"2011-07-14T14:28:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T18:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8422"},"modified":"2011-07-14T13:57:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T17:57:49","slug":"%c2%a0whoa-baby-texas-mom-delivers-16-pound-newborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8422","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Whoa, Baby! Texas Mom Delivers  16-Pound Newborn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW, TX\u00a0 &#8212; A Texas mom expected a big baby, but nothing like this: 16 pounds, 1 ounce (7.3 kilograms).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Janet Johnson<\/strong> on Monday remained in an East Texas hospital after giving birth to what her doctors called one of the biggest newborns they&#8217;ve ever seen. She was awaiting word on whether her son, <strong>JaMichael Brown<\/strong>, ranked among the biggest births in state history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody was amazed that he was so big,&#8221; <strong>Johnson<\/strong>, 39, said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think too many people have heard of having a 16-pound baby.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>JaMichael<\/strong> was born Friday at Good Shepherd Medical Center in Longview. <strong>Johnson<\/strong> has gestational diabetes, which results in bigger newborns for many mothers. Doctors had estimated<strong> JaMichael<\/strong> would be around 12 pounds (5.44 kilograms) prior to the cesarean birth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW, TX\u00a0 &#8212; A Texas mom expected a big baby, but nothing like this: 16 pounds, 1 ounce (7.3 kilograms). Janet Johnson on Monday remained in an East Texas hospital after giving birth to what her doctors called one of the biggest newborns they&#8217;ve ever seen. She was awaiting word on whether her son, JaMichael [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}