Caroline and Bryan Ruscak welcomed a rather large bundle of joy on Tuesday, Apr. 22. The Boston couple was excited - and stunned - when their newborn daughter, Carisa, weighed in at 14.5 pounds.
"When she came out at 14 and a half pounds, I couldn't believe it," Bryan said, ABC reports. "I took a picture of the scale just to document it because I couldn't believe how big she was. And long, too: 22 inches is long. That's what we like, long and big. That's what I am."
Caroline told CBS Boston that she experienced a lot of pain throughout her pregnancy and towards the end people would often stop her to ask if she was carrying twins. The pain she had experienced was due to her baby's size.
"Three weeks before the scheduled C-section they were estimating that she was 11.5 pounds," Caroline said.
However, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital had underestimated. Both parents and doctors were shocked by the baby's size.
"Everyone in the operating room was like, 'Oh my God, look at the size of this baby! Let's get her on the scale. What does she weigh?' Nobody could believe it," Caroline said, CBS reports. "People were like, 'We need to check the records; this could be the biggest baby we've ever seen here.'"
Carisa wasn't the biggest baby but did tie for first place. According to CBS, back in 2002 another baby was born at Massachusetts General Hospital with the same measurements.
Caroline explained that she expected to have a big baby. She is 5'9, her husband is 6'6 and their first born - another girl - weighed in at 10 pounds, 10 ounces.
"So we're bigger people in general," she said. "It just makes sense."
Caroline also told reports that both she and her husband weighed in at 10 pounds when they were born, ABC reports. Both Caroline and baby Carisa are said to be doing fine and are expected to leave the hospital soon.
