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Texans love to brag about how everything is bigger in the Lone Star State. Now they have proof, with the birth of a baby boy who weighed a whopping 16 pounds and one ounce.

JaMichael Brown's weight was more than double the national average for a newborn and he measures 24 inches long, just a few inches shy of an average one-year-old.

JaMichael holds the title of the biggest baby ever born at Good Shepherd Medical Centre in Longview, located on the border between Texas and Louisiana.

The previous record there was set by a child born in 1988 who was just over 15 pounds, said Victoria Ashworth, the hospital's marketing director.

JaMichael was born at 9:05 a.m. on Friday to Janet Johnson and Michael Brown.

This is Johnson's fourth child, but the couple's first together, officials said.

Johnson delivered him by scheduled Caesarean section in her 39th week of pregnancy, just a few days early, hospital officials said.

Johnson was released from the hospital on Tuesday but is staying there until JaMichael, who is under observation in the neonatal intensive care unit, gets to go home in the next few days.

"He's ... stabilized and is just being observed and watched carefully," Ashworth said.

The little bruiser, who has already earned the affectionate nickname "Moose" across the Internet, gets his size partially from the fact that his mother had gestational diabetes during her pregnancy, Ashworth said.

But it's also a matter of big Texans begetting other big Texans, she said. His father is 6 feet 6. His uncle? 6 feet 8.

"They do have some genetics that play in," Ashworth said.

• JaMichael may be making waves in the land of tall hats and taller tales, but he's not the biggest baby ever born. News reports and record books tell of newborns more than 23 pounds in the late 1800s, and an Indonesian boy born at 19.1 pounds in 2009.

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Jul 12, 2011

nevus

by the time you are 6months you'l be the same weight as Tsek.kikikikikiki
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Jul 12, 2011

Tsek

warra warra what what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jul 12, 2011

Stringo7

ONLY EXTRA- ODIRNARY WOMEN WERE GOING TO DELIVER THIS BIG
BABY THE NORMAL WAY.
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Jul 12, 2011

BOOKIE

These woman was carring a giant in her womb. He must have been heavy. Shoooo i feel for you
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Jul 12, 2011

nevus

o na le mashishi a lekanang le a Tsek...kikikikikikiki
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Jul 12, 2011

nyobannahle!!!

o apara size mang ya pampers?
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Jul 12, 2011

Mellow

Damn baby damn much respect to the woman who carried you 39weeks haai mina i would've popped you out earlier than that, well wish you a healthy life its not gonna be easy though
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Jul 12, 2011

Tsek

nevus
by the time you are 6months you'l be the same weight as Tsek.kikikikikiki
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voetsek maan i'll thuka u manje san.,.....jou azwindini!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jul 12, 2011

Tsek

nyobannahle!!!
o apara size mang ya pampers?
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o apara same size le panty ya gago
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Jul 12, 2011

vza

cute
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