Monster mums hit the bottle big style

You should see the state of the nappies

Turns out the story about Sunderland Royal Hospital buying reinforced maternity beds for morbidly obese mums-to-be is not an April fool’s joke after all.

Instead of eating for two, it appears there are a number of Sunderland mothers eating for eight, or nine, or maybe ten.

One in four pregnant mums in the city are clinically obese with some 200 in the morbidly obese class – one mother reportedly tipped the scales at more than 20 stone. (see amusingly titled story Sunderland’s fat mum alert)

That particularly large mother would, however, have trouble tipping one of the theatre beds at the hospital – they are designed to hold patients as heavy as 47 stone.

We don’t know, as yet, if a 47 stone mother has rolled into the maternity ward, though the delivery of a new batch of baby bottles to the hospital, pictured here, suggests staff may be preparing for some monster mothers and babies over the coming months.

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