Proof....that Gringo's are making it to Brazil

[El Capitan]

Here's unequivocal proof, that Gringo's are making it down to "O Brasil" in record numbers!!

Ray, did you play any part in this?

Thought you guys may get an "ouch" out of these stories!! Enjoy...


Woman Gives Birth to 16.7 Pound Baby
Thursday, January 20, 2005

SAO PAULO, Brazil — A woman in northeastern Brazil (search) has given birth to what one doctor called a "giant baby," a boy weighing 16.7 pounds.

Francisca Ramos dos Santos, 38, gave birth to the healthy boy named Ademilton on Tuesday at a hospital in Salvador, 900 miles northeast of Sao Paulo. He was the largest baby born at the Albert Sabin Maternity Hospital in its 12-year history, the hospital said.

"Obviously the baby was born by Caesarean section," hospital director Rita Leal said. "Both mother and baby are doing just fine."

Ademilton "could truly be considered a giant baby, for he was born weighing what a six-month-old-baby normally weighs," pediatrician Luiz Sena Azul told the Correio da Bahia newspaper.

Santos has four other children — ages 9, 12, 14, and 15 — who were born weighing between 7.7 pounds and 11 pounds.

"She knew Ademilton would be a big baby, but not this big" Leal said. "She, her husband and the hospital staff were caught by surprise."

The average weight for newborns in Brazil is 7.7 pounds for boys and 6.6 pounds for girls.

For the full story on this, with a picture: 16.7 pound Brazilian Baby


...And if you thought that wasn't enough...then this happens today!!!


Brazilian gives birth to 14-pound girl
POSTED: 2:27 p.m. EDT, August 29, 2006

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- A 14-pound girl delivered by Caesarean section is so large that her feet reach over the edge of her small crib, hospital officials said Tuesday.

Isabel Vitoria, who was born Sunday, measures nearly 23 1/4 inches.

She is far from the largest ever born in Brazil. That was a 16-pound, 11-ounce baby born in January 2005 in the northeastern city of Salvador.

According to Guinness World Records, the heaviest baby born to a healthy mother was a boy weighing 22 pounds, 8 ounces in Aversa, Italy, in 1955.

Isabel Vitoria was in good health and should go home Wednesday, said Antonio Pimenta, an administrator at the Rocha Faria State Hospital.

She's the first daughter for Elisa Maia dos Ribeiro, 36, who already has three sons. All were large, weighing more than nine pounds, but substantially smaller than Isabel Vitoria.

Ribeiro is diabetic, and doctors said it was common for women with diabetes to give birth to large babies.

For the full story on this: 14 Pound Brazilian Baby


Now...who did it? Geesh...next thing you know, Dogs will be sleeping with Cats

[Texas Cowboy]

lmao EC, there was one about 2 yrs back close to 20lbs. in Rio....must be the "guarana & churrasco" Bro