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Summary The newborn named Francisco Leon Ortiz weighs 14 pounds and 11 ounce.
ABERDEEN, Wash. (AP) — A hospital in Washington says a woman gave birth this month a baby weighing nearly 15 pounds.
Grays Harbor Community Hospital says the average newborn weighs about 7 ½ pounds at birth. Yessica Ortiz Delgado delivered a boy named Francisco Leon Ortiz who weighed 14 pounds and 11 ounces.
Delgado s two other children were about 12 pounds each at birth but the mother didn t expect her newest to be so large.
Both mother and son are doing well.
