14-pound baby causes sensation in resort city

Super

? He is called “Super Tonio,” and at a whopping birth weight of 14.1 pounds, the little fellow is causing a sensation in Cancun.

Cancun residents have crowded the nursery ward’s window to see Antonio Vasconcelos, who was born early Monday by Caesarean section. The baby, who weighed 14.5 pounds Wednesday, drinks 5 ounces of milk every three hours and measures 22 inches in length.

“We haven’t found any abnormality in the child, there are some signs of high blood sugar, and a slight blood infection, but that is being controlled so that the child can get on with his normal life in a few more days,” Narciso Perez Bravo, the hospital’s director, said Wednesday.

Antonio’s mother, Teresa Alejandra Cruz, 23, and father, Luis Vasconcelos, 38, said they were proud of the boy, and noted that Cruz had given birth to a baby girl seven years ago who weighed 11.46 pounds.