A woman from Laguna Hills, Calif. delivered a 14-pound baby boy on Dec. 23.

The baby, delivered via Caesarean section, is the heaviest baby ever to be born at the Saddleback Memorial Medical Center, and probably also in Orange County, according to Saddleback physicians and an informal check of other major county hospitals.

At the time of birth, Richard Walker Sault Jr. weighted 14-pounds 2 ounces, and was 21 inches long.

Without a doubt, the boy’s parents are tremendously cheerful, but also very flabbergasted to see how heavy their baby was born. They said they were expecting a big baby, but not this size.

"Our daughter, she was a big girl and she walked in 10 months. And Junior here looks like he could get up and walk out of the hospital right now," father Richard Sault said on MSNBC, a 24-hour cable television news channel based in the U.S..

Because of doctors’ faces, who were all very surprised, Sara Sault, the baby’s mother, became quite nervous during the delivery. She is said to be in good health.

The newborn was too big for one physician to handle so it took two physicians to lift him up during the C-section.
The baby who set new records in California was born two days before Christmas. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the oldest surviving baby weighed no less than 22.5 pounds.

The family returned home from the Saddleback Memorial Medical Center on Saturday.