A British woman has given birth to the biggest ever baby born naturally in Spain, a hospital has said.
Maxime Marin, 40, did not need an epidural painkiller to deliver the baby girl who weighed 13lb 7oz.
Newborn Maria Lorena Marin, born after 41 weeks, is around twice the size of an average baby.
She is said to be in "perfect health" following the delivery at Hospital Marina Salud in the Mediterranean city of Denia yesterday morning.
Dr Javier Rius, the chief of gynaecology at the hospital, said in his 40 years of practice he had never known a baby born naturally to weigh so much.
Ms Marin said she expected the baby to be "big but not that big" as her three older children each weighed more than 9lb 14oz at birth.
She said the five-hour labour was "simple" and the baby's father, Jaime Marin, said everything went well.
The heaviest baby ever born weighed 23lb 12oz in Canada in 1879, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
But the baby, whose mother Anna Bates had giantism, died 11 hours later.
In 1955, a baby boy weighing 22lbs 8oz was born to Carmelina Fedele in Aversa, Italy.
