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Earlier this month a woman gave birth to an over 14-pound baby in California. Matthew Anthony Maldanado's birth weight was actually 14 pounds, 3.6 ounces -- -- possibly the biggest baby ever born in the state.
Meanwhile, in a study that has been described as 'disturbing' by weight loss groups, babies will be given a diet drug in the womb. One hundred obese pregnant women will be given Metformin as part of a three-year study. The drug will reduce the food supply to their unborn babies, although it will not help the women themselves to lose weight.