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CHENNAI: When doctors took 38-year-old Jayashree inside a labour ward at the state-run Kasturba Hospital in Triplicane , little did they expect to delivery a baby weighing around 5.12 kg. Minutes after Jayashree gave birth to the boy through normal delivery, there was a collective cry of joy in the operation theatre. But it is talked about as the boy was given birth through normal delivery. Both the boy and the mother are healthy, doctors said.“He is not the city’s heaviest baby. This may be because of better diet and living standards in the population.The birth registry at Chennai corporation shows excessive birth weight, called as macrosomia, was around 1.06% in 2006..