Super moons also produce super
babies, one mother found out at Anne Arundel Medical Center early Saturday
morning.
“I
wasn’t due for another week,” said 30-year-old new mother Maria Greenwell. “I for sure wasn’t expecting him to be
almost 10 pounds a week early. I’ve only gained 25 pounds.”
On
Saturday, May 5 at 4:48am Joseph Michael Greenwell was born weighing in at nine
pounds 14 ounces; making him 17 percent larger than the average
seven-pound-six-ounce United States newborn. On the same night came the super moon, which was 14 percent
larger than the average full moon.
“Full moon
babies usually bigger,” said Fabiola Tellarico, a labor and delivery nurse at
AAMC. “Joseph is the biggest baby
we’ve had so far though, his poor mother!”
Full
moons are often cited as explanations for strange happenings and Saturday’s
super moon was no exception.
“I
told Maria he was going to be a big baby,” said five-time grandmother Christine
Nehman. “I just had a feeling,
this was the night, he’s a week early, but full moons have a way of making
things happen; it’s a little freaky, honestly.”
“At
the last appointment, the doctor said he was going to weight about eight
pounds,” said first-time-dad Jimmy Greenwell. “That was three days ago.”
Baby
Joseph turned out to be the biggest baby during the entire night. No doubt, according to his
eleven-year-old cousin Emma Nehman, because of the super moon.
“We
have do to a project on the super moon for my science class and it’s due on
Monday,” said Nehman. “I was so
glad Joseph was born on the super moon, and he was a chunky-monkey. I’m going to have the best project, my
teacher loves babies!”
Diet,
exercise and apparently super moons are all contributing factors of infant
birth weight. One of Joseph’s new
cousins doesn’t believe that the super moon has anything to do with his cousin’s
large stature.
“The
moon isn’t why Joseph is so fat,” said nine-year-old Nicholas Nehman. “Aunt Maria ate lots of meatloaf when
Joseph was in her belly. That’s
why he’s so big! I’m calling him meatloaf from now on.”
Joseph’s
family and friends were taking bets on when he would be born and how much he
would weigh. Family friend,
20-year-old Erin Malley turned out to have the closest guess, being that Joseph
would be born on Saturday, May 5 and weight 10 pounds one ounce.
“I’m
really superstitious,” said Malley.
“I knew the super moon was coming, I keep up with that kind of
stuff. I just had this feeling
that he would be born on Saturday, and he would be one big baby! Turns out, I was right!”
