The world's fattest baby, Siberia and beetroot soup

Reuters ^ | Oct. 25, 2007 | Natalya Sokhareva

[COUNTrecount]

She'd better not move to NYC !

[Eagles Talon IV]

Not even close. My mother told me her niece gave birth to an 18 lb plus baby way back in the 1940’s

[MPJackal]

12 kids? WTF? How can you bitch about being poor when you chose it?

[Mr. Mojo]

"I promised my father that we would have an entire football team," he [the father] said grinning. "But we never got there as we mostly had girls, so we've ended up with a volleyball team instead."

Stick with football, Viktor. You just produced the nose tackle.

[UglyinLA]

A month later Nadia was finally able to go home from hospital to the family’s three-bedroom apartment in Aleisk.

I hope during that month they yanked out her ovaries and slapped her in the head a few times.

[redlocks322]

Well as my dear Grannie told me when I was a teenager “back then, we did what our husband’s told us to do”....

My mother has 9 sisters and 5 brothers.

[greenthumbedislndr]

I wouldn’t classify that as bitching. They’re just stating their situation. I’m in a similar situation, and we made choices that affect our finaces (such as my wife staying home and homeschooling our kids). Sometimes we have to let people know our situation and for them to understand that yes, we have inconveniences, but we are making these sacrifices willingly. Also I bet there are plenty of truck drivers in the russian army that make a whole lot more than that father. I know people that make 3 times as much as I do, just because of the people they tend to associate with. There IS a bias against large families these days. I personally would be more inclined to send them a donation than to judge them.

[greenthumbedislndr]

your character truly matches your username.

It is none of your business how many kids they choose to have, and yes, there are irresponsible people out there who shouldn’t have kids, but these people do not sound like it to me. So they have a more simple life... So what?... How do you know that maybe kid #11 might not go on to become the next Einstein?
if they yanked out womens ovaries according to your wishes, this world would miss out on a LOT of wonderful people.

[bejaykay]

Apparently you are a free republic troll. “{You} hope they yanked uot her ovaries and . . . “ Who are “they” ——the state enforcers of how many children one family should have or how big they should be? Why shouldn’t they kill the mom and the kid while they are at it? I doubt you have any idea about freedom.

[LongElegantLegs]

I thought the Russians were paying people to have kids nowadays...

[MPJackal]

They don’t have anything to eat but bread and beetroot soup, Can’t afford toys, have only old clothes to wear. It sounded like bitching to me. Maybe I am cynical of how the system works here in the USA, more kids=more money from the taxpayers. I have no problem with large families. I do have a problem with people that have large families and expect me and the rest of the tax payers to foot the bill.

“Also I bet there are plenty of truck drivers in the Russian army that make a whole lot more than that father.”

Based on what? I’ll take the bet though since the guy is a truck driver in the military. A military that still has compulsory service. I am surprised he makes as much as he does.

[Mr. Mojo]

And at the rate Russia’s Muslims are breeding their national survival depends on folks like these Siberians working overtime at babymaking.

[freedomson]

You’re drunk, right?

[Blackyce]

"And at the rate Russia’s Muslims are breeding their national survival depends on folks like these Siberians working overtime at babymaking." I couldn't care less about Russia's racial/religious/ethnic composition as they couldn't possibly be more corrupt and murderous than they have been for most of the last century, but, FWIW, those Siberians probably [are the Muslims you're talking about. There aren't many Slavs with the last name Khalina.

[gaudete]

I think your football team would be tougher than the Cornhuskers

[Kimmers]

Cute but really big baby !!!!!

My concern is with mom and wondering if she is diabetic and I can’t help think about the poor medical care in that country.

[Mr. Mojo]

I couldn't care less about Russia's racial/religious/ethnic composition

Better rethink your position. A Muslim-dominated nation with literally thousands of nuclear warheads on sophisticated (intercontinental) delivery systems is infintely more dangerous than any of Russia's incarnations we've faced this past century.

[greenthumbedislndr]

>more kids=more money from the taxpayers
if i were you, I’d pay my taxes and be glad I can still speak english... (that is if you don’t have the misfortune of having to live in mexifornia)

[am452]

Apparently you are a free republic troll. “{You} hope they yanked uot her ovaries and . . . “ Who are “they” ——the state enforcers of how many children one family should have or how big they should be? Why shouldn’t they kill the mom and the kid while they are at it? I doubt you have any idea about freedom

Yep, Russia needs as many non Muslim babies it can get lest it be taken over. The US and Britain (and Europe) should also get some breeding going on...non muslim of course.

[GnuHere]

Well, uh - Nadia is the BABY, not the mother! She has little to say about the whole scheme of things!